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Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds!!
2025
Planting seeds is very healing and hopeful and gives you clean food and a happy heart.
From our mountain to all of you, be well and thank you!
Penn and her tomatoes.
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Tomato Aficionados Who Live On A Mountain - You Are Here!
The Holy Grail of The Mountains is calling... oh yeah, a red, ripe tomato!
If you have found me than you must be a wild mountain gardener looking for wild mountain seeds. This is the place. I specialize in tomatoes with more coming all the time. Below are about 250 varieties that I have available now.
Our greenhouses allow us to grow tomatoes year round so I am always saving seed. Come back and check for new arrivals.
There are other things - like mountain spinach - and herbs, flowers and greens - to name a few that you can find at the end of the list. Be sure to look at the More Wild Mountain Seed Page too.
These seeds are all grown at 8,120 feet in the Wet Mountains of South-Central Colorado. It is high and dry baby, it is windy, and the temps fluctuate 40-50 degrees every night - and that's in summer! We grow tomatoes totally in the open, in sustainable greenhouses, under hoops, in containers, you name it. Some of the varieties have been saved here for eleven years, some only 1, but any amount is of huge benefit to you - the mountain tomato grower.
Those that mention being 'grown in the open' - means no cover - which is the strongest seed I carry. That info is included in the description.
Growing adapted seed will work wonders for you folks up higher than me - and once you've grown it - you can save it too and it will remember your mountain and immediately begin to adapt and improve.
You don't have to live at high elevation to benefit from this seed - it's strong and ready for extreme growing. It is also suitable for dry climates.
The Safe Seed Pledge:
"Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our lives depend. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. For the benefit of all farmers, gardeners and consumers who want an alternative,
We pledge that we do not knowingly buy, sell or trade genetically engineered seeds or plants.
The mechanical transfer of genetic material outside of natural reproductive methods and between genera, families or kingdoms, poses great biological risks as well as economic, political, and cultural threats. We feel that genetically engineered varieties have been insufficiently tested prior to public release. More research and testing is necessary to further assess the potential risks of genetically engineered seeds. Further, we wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems and ultimately healthy people and communities."
Please take a look at OSSI - the Open Source Seed Initiative - when I grow up - I will have varieties under the OSSI - such good work!
I believe in Public Domain seeds - the seeds belong to me and to you! Please grow, share, trade, gift seed so THE PEOPLE have food security and diversity that they can hold in their hands and pass down to their loved ones for generations to come.
"Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our lives depend. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. For the benefit of all farmers, gardeners and consumers who want an alternative,
We pledge that we do not knowingly buy, sell or trade genetically engineered seeds or plants.
The mechanical transfer of genetic material outside of natural reproductive methods and between genera, families or kingdoms, poses great biological risks as well as economic, political, and cultural threats. We feel that genetically engineered varieties have been insufficiently tested prior to public release. More research and testing is necessary to further assess the potential risks of genetically engineered seeds. Further, we wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems and ultimately healthy people and communities."
Please take a look at OSSI - the Open Source Seed Initiative - when I grow up - I will have varieties under the OSSI - such good work!
I believe in Public Domain seeds - the seeds belong to me and to you! Please grow, share, trade, gift seed so THE PEOPLE have food security and diversity that they can hold in their hands and pass down to their loved ones for generations to come.
Store is OPEN!
Tomato Packets come with around 34-40 seeds
LQ - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
VLQ - Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Determinate means 'Bush'
Indeterminate means 'Vining'
Semi-Determinate means a little of both
Tomato Packets come with around 34-40 seeds
LQ - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
VLQ - Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Determinate means 'Bush'
Indeterminate means 'Vining'
Semi-Determinate means a little of both
How To Order:
Click on Store or up on the Menu Bar.
Other ways to order:
You can call or email me if you want to send a check. I will total the order with you and will have the order ready when your check gets to:
Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds
12746 County Road 255
Westcliffe, Co 81252
719-783-2917 - Leave a message if we don't answer and I will call right back!
MOUNTAIN ADAPTED VEGETABLES
Romano II Italian Pole Beans
NEW FOR 2025!!!
Romano II Italian Pole Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
This Italian Pole Bean is glorious!
Here is the story from Nickie Dumke, the person who so generously sent them to me in 2019. After last year's successful crop, I finally have enough to share. I'll let her tell you. 15 precious seeds per packet.
SNAP-POLE
"Flat pods with large, meaty beans, grown by my family for four generations. Very hardy, grown at sea level to at least 7600 feet elevation. Short history: My maternal grandfather, Nicolangelo Capraro, worked at the Rocky Mountain Seed Company on weekends during the Great Depression. It took three jobs to support his family of five children. In his older years, he grew enough of these beans to feed them to his children, their spouses, and thirteen grandchildren as part of a pasta dinner every Sunday. I remember Grandpa saying, “Mangia! Mangia!” (“Eat! Eat!”) as Grandma was spooning beans onto our plates. While eating and watching us eat the beans, he always said, “God bless the fagioli.” (Fagioli is beans in Italian). Older family members grew them until 2001, then there was a 10 year hiatus until my son started. I bought seeds for his birthday in January, 2011 and Rocky Mountain Seed went under in March. I began growing them in earnest in 2016."
Source: Rocky Mountain Seeds, Denver, CO years ago - 1975
Romano II Italian Pole Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
This Italian Pole Bean is glorious!
Here is the story from Nickie Dumke, the person who so generously sent them to me in 2019. After last year's successful crop, I finally have enough to share. I'll let her tell you. 15 precious seeds per packet.
SNAP-POLE
"Flat pods with large, meaty beans, grown by my family for four generations. Very hardy, grown at sea level to at least 7600 feet elevation. Short history: My maternal grandfather, Nicolangelo Capraro, worked at the Rocky Mountain Seed Company on weekends during the Great Depression. It took three jobs to support his family of five children. In his older years, he grew enough of these beans to feed them to his children, their spouses, and thirteen grandchildren as part of a pasta dinner every Sunday. I remember Grandpa saying, “Mangia! Mangia!” (“Eat! Eat!”) as Grandma was spooning beans onto our plates. While eating and watching us eat the beans, he always said, “God bless the fagioli.” (Fagioli is beans in Italian). Older family members grew them until 2001, then there was a 10 year hiatus until my son started. I bought seeds for his birthday in January, 2011 and Rocky Mountain Seed went under in March. I began growing them in earnest in 2016."
Source: Rocky Mountain Seeds, Denver, CO years ago - 1975
The Farisita Pinto Bean
NEW FOR 2025!!
The Farisita Pinto Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
This is another amazing family heirloom story and I am so happy to have enough of this delicious pinto bean to share. It is a small batch and even though the friends that gave me the seeds are encouraging me to 'just eat them', I am going to share them and grow a bigger batch this year.
My friends have told me 'this is the best pinto bean I have ever eaten' and I have shared many meals with them and they are delicious!
I've named it the Farisita Pinto Bean after the unincorporated town in Colorado where they were grown. A man named David Gnaizda grew this wonderful bean by the Huerfano River in Farisita for over 40 years. I'm still hoping to find out who gifted them to him.
He gifted them to my friends in La Veta, Co and they gifted them to me. Oh boy - I love my friends and l love seeds!
Ok - this is a small batch so you will have to do as I did, grow enough to replant and eventually grow enough to cook.
This pinto is perfect in a Three Sisters Garden, it vines about 18". It's not quite a pole bean and not quite a bush bean. I have grown them up the sunflowers but they are perfect to grow with Candy Mountain Sweet Corn because it is a very short corn. Add in either our Mountain Maxima or Northern Bush Pumpkin and you are set!
I am giving 20 seeds per packet. These seeds are precious!
The Farisita Pinto Bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
This is another amazing family heirloom story and I am so happy to have enough of this delicious pinto bean to share. It is a small batch and even though the friends that gave me the seeds are encouraging me to 'just eat them', I am going to share them and grow a bigger batch this year.
My friends have told me 'this is the best pinto bean I have ever eaten' and I have shared many meals with them and they are delicious!
I've named it the Farisita Pinto Bean after the unincorporated town in Colorado where they were grown. A man named David Gnaizda grew this wonderful bean by the Huerfano River in Farisita for over 40 years. I'm still hoping to find out who gifted them to him.
He gifted them to my friends in La Veta, Co and they gifted them to me. Oh boy - I love my friends and l love seeds!
Ok - this is a small batch so you will have to do as I did, grow enough to replant and eventually grow enough to cook.
This pinto is perfect in a Three Sisters Garden, it vines about 18". It's not quite a pole bean and not quite a bush bean. I have grown them up the sunflowers but they are perfect to grow with Candy Mountain Sweet Corn because it is a very short corn. Add in either our Mountain Maxima or Northern Bush Pumpkin and you are set!
I am giving 20 seeds per packet. These seeds are precious!
Mountain Fava Bean
NEW FOR 2025!!!
Mountain Fava Bean
Vicia faba
Fava Beans love the mountains, they can handle cooler temperatures and even light frosts. They cross and this is another Grex, a mixture of Fava's that I have collected over the years. You will see variation in the beans but the vigor of all will be outstanding. Fava's grow quite tall - 3-4' and the pods are enormous.
In the Grex are Fava's from our good friend Jesus Flores, Farmer for the Rio Grande Farm Park in Alamosa, Co, a small batch of Joseph Lofthouse's Fava Grex and a pile of Windsor Fava's that I purchased years ago. Together they rocked and they rolled and they are a rainbow of colors and sizes.
If you've never grown them, jump back, they will burst out of the ground and grow rapidly. They are lush plants with exotic black and white flowers.
Plant them 1-2" deep and space them at least 6" apart. They are legumes of course so they will fix nitrogen and
help to build rich soil. They are also called Broad Beans.
Small Batch Farming 12 seeds per packet
Mountain Fava Bean
Vicia faba
Fava Beans love the mountains, they can handle cooler temperatures and even light frosts. They cross and this is another Grex, a mixture of Fava's that I have collected over the years. You will see variation in the beans but the vigor of all will be outstanding. Fava's grow quite tall - 3-4' and the pods are enormous.
In the Grex are Fava's from our good friend Jesus Flores, Farmer for the Rio Grande Farm Park in Alamosa, Co, a small batch of Joseph Lofthouse's Fava Grex and a pile of Windsor Fava's that I purchased years ago. Together they rocked and they rolled and they are a rainbow of colors and sizes.
If you've never grown them, jump back, they will burst out of the ground and grow rapidly. They are lush plants with exotic black and white flowers.
Plant them 1-2" deep and space them at least 6" apart. They are legumes of course so they will fix nitrogen and
help to build rich soil. They are also called Broad Beans.
Small Batch Farming 12 seeds per packet
Collective Farm Woman Cantaloupe
Picture by Avalon and Ross
Collective Farm Woman Cantaloupe
80-ish days - Ukraine
Cucumis melo var. inodorus
A perfect short season cantaloupe for the mountains! Small, greenish yellow fruits grow abundantly on vining plants. White flesh with a high sugar content. Fast, hardy-for-a-melon, this is the one to try if you think you can't grow a melon.
Adapted to cooler, short seasons.
Fruits vary in size but can be 7"-10" in diameter.
Perfect for two. Or one.
Delicious, sweet, juicy flesh cools you down in late summer heat.
Direct sow 1" deep after the soil has warmed. Plant in the warmest place you've got, melons love warmth. You can start them inside but cucurbits don't love transplanting so I prefer to direct seed. I find this helps with their fast growing momentum early on.
Original Seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
80-ish days - Ukraine
Cucumis melo var. inodorus
A perfect short season cantaloupe for the mountains! Small, greenish yellow fruits grow abundantly on vining plants. White flesh with a high sugar content. Fast, hardy-for-a-melon, this is the one to try if you think you can't grow a melon.
Adapted to cooler, short seasons.
Fruits vary in size but can be 7"-10" in diameter.
Perfect for two. Or one.
Delicious, sweet, juicy flesh cools you down in late summer heat.
Direct sow 1" deep after the soil has warmed. Plant in the warmest place you've got, melons love warmth. You can start them inside but cucurbits don't love transplanting so I prefer to direct seed. I find this helps with their fast growing momentum early on.
Original Seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
Dragon Carrot
Dragon Carrot - 70-80 days
Daucus carota
Developed by John Navazio
Gorgeous, purple, 7" carrots can tolerate any soil. Rich in antioxidants and full of flavor, Dragon Carrots are purple on the outside, orange on the inside and yellow at the core. Pretty spectacular.
Great for fresh eating, beautiful on the plate! These carrots will lose some of their color when cooked. No matter - the flavor is outstanding.
Carrots are great for the mountain garden, you can plant them in early spring and late summer. They grow beautifully in the winter
greenhouse too.
Sow seeds 1/8" - 1/4" deep and keep evenly moist through
germination.
Carrots can take up to two weeks to germinate so don't give up on
them! Enjoy!
Original seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
Daucus carota
Developed by John Navazio
Gorgeous, purple, 7" carrots can tolerate any soil. Rich in antioxidants and full of flavor, Dragon Carrots are purple on the outside, orange on the inside and yellow at the core. Pretty spectacular.
Great for fresh eating, beautiful on the plate! These carrots will lose some of their color when cooked. No matter - the flavor is outstanding.
Carrots are great for the mountain garden, you can plant them in early spring and late summer. They grow beautifully in the winter
greenhouse too.
Sow seeds 1/8" - 1/4" deep and keep evenly moist through
germination.
Carrots can take up to two weeks to germinate so don't give up on
them! Enjoy!
Original seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
Colorful Carrot Mix
Colorful Carrot Mix
Daucus carota
Orange, purple and white carrots bring color and health to your plate. Carrots love the mountains and can tolerate most soil types. Sow this mix and you harvest diversity all at once!
This mix is southwest adapted, it can thrive in the high and dry. Sow seeds 1/8" - 1/4" and keep moist through germination. Carrots can take two weeks to germinate so be patient and keep watering them! We use a light mulch to help with moisture retention.
Original Seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
Daucus carota
Orange, purple and white carrots bring color and health to your plate. Carrots love the mountains and can tolerate most soil types. Sow this mix and you harvest diversity all at once!
This mix is southwest adapted, it can thrive in the high and dry. Sow seeds 1/8" - 1/4" and keep moist through germination. Carrots can take two weeks to germinate so be patient and keep watering them! We use a light mulch to help with moisture retention.
Original Seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
MOUNTAIN MAXIMA
Cucurbita maxima
THIS GREX IS FROM JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE'S MEDIUM MAXIMA GREX, MIXED FOR 4 YEARS WITH MY OWN MAXIMA'S. EARLY, DELICIOUS, NOW NAMED MOUNTAIN MAXIMA.
90 DAYS TO MATURITY
THIS MAXIMA MIX ROCKS - WE ARE AMAZED AT HOW MANY WONDERFUL, DELICIOUS SQUASHES WE GET UP HERE AT 8,120'. BEAUTIFUL SHAPES AND DIVERSE SIZES AND COLORS. I TOLD JOSEPH THAT WHEN WE CRACKED INTO EACH SQUASH, THEY WERE FRAGRANT AS A MELON. THEY ALSO HOLD A LONG TIME - WE CRACKED OPEN THE LAST SQUASH IN AUGUST OF THE NEXT YEAR AFTER WE GREW THEM. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT....
LIMITED QUANTITY - 12 SEEDS - SMALL BATCH FARMING
Cucurbita maxima
THIS GREX IS FROM JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE'S MEDIUM MAXIMA GREX, MIXED FOR 4 YEARS WITH MY OWN MAXIMA'S. EARLY, DELICIOUS, NOW NAMED MOUNTAIN MAXIMA.
90 DAYS TO MATURITY
THIS MAXIMA MIX ROCKS - WE ARE AMAZED AT HOW MANY WONDERFUL, DELICIOUS SQUASHES WE GET UP HERE AT 8,120'. BEAUTIFUL SHAPES AND DIVERSE SIZES AND COLORS. I TOLD JOSEPH THAT WHEN WE CRACKED INTO EACH SQUASH, THEY WERE FRAGRANT AS A MELON. THEY ALSO HOLD A LONG TIME - WE CRACKED OPEN THE LAST SQUASH IN AUGUST OF THE NEXT YEAR AFTER WE GREW THEM. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT....
LIMITED QUANTITY - 12 SEEDS - SMALL BATCH FARMING
Candy Astronomy Landrace Sweet Corn
Candy Mountain Sweet Corn X Lofthouse Astronomy Sweet Corn Grex
This is a first year cross of two wonderful short season sweet corns. Joseph Lofthouse's promiscuously pollinated Astronomy Sweet Corn Grex with our super stable but always adapting Candy Mountain Sweet Corn will mix the best with the best. Get in on the fun of seeing what comes in the second year. Astronomy is selected for colors, old fashioned corn flavor without being too sweet, predator resistance, and is the best survival corn even in extreme climates.
Candy Mountain has tight, uniform, fat cobs with straight rows on short plants to foil the wind. Can be planted on 8" centers and has withstood light, late frosts. Adapted to drought and fluctuating temperatures. Excellent, super sweet flavor, a great companion to Joseph's diversity.
Let 'em dance!
Packets come with about 100 seeds.
Read about Joseph's Astronomy Sweet Corn here:
Http://garden.lofthouse.com/seed-list-2019.phtml
Candy Mountain Sweet Corn X Lofthouse Astronomy Sweet Corn Grex
This is a first year cross of two wonderful short season sweet corns. Joseph Lofthouse's promiscuously pollinated Astronomy Sweet Corn Grex with our super stable but always adapting Candy Mountain Sweet Corn will mix the best with the best. Get in on the fun of seeing what comes in the second year. Astronomy is selected for colors, old fashioned corn flavor without being too sweet, predator resistance, and is the best survival corn even in extreme climates.
Candy Mountain has tight, uniform, fat cobs with straight rows on short plants to foil the wind. Can be planted on 8" centers and has withstood light, late frosts. Adapted to drought and fluctuating temperatures. Excellent, super sweet flavor, a great companion to Joseph's diversity.
Let 'em dance!
Packets come with about 100 seeds.
Read about Joseph's Astronomy Sweet Corn here:
Http://garden.lofthouse.com/seed-list-2019.phtml
Kinko 6" Chantenay Carrot - 55 days
We have loved this carrot for 32 seasons. We got the original seed from Bill McDorman back in the early 90's and when he ran out of seed, we picked up growing it out and occasionally, have enough to put it on the market. It's truly special. Crisp, sweet, holds seemingly forever in the soil and never gets woody, it's forgiving of any soil type and that's just for starters.
Back in the day when Cord was working as a blacksmith, we would 'seal the deal' with the client by pulling up a Kinko 6" and letting them crunch it - right there on the spot. While they were still in a delicious, carrot trance, we would get them to sign off on the iron project. It gave us clout.
Now, as seed growers, it is a long, two-year process, taking up lots of room in the garden and the fridge, it is prone to disaster, (like ground animals stealing them or horses eating all the seed right before harvest), and we often do not get much seed. However, it has been worth it to offer this amazing carrot to the world, even on a small scale. So although the quantity will be somewhat limited, it is worth it to grow even a small patch in your garden.
Our friend Steve Peters (FAMOUS SEED GROWER), says I must clean the bearded seed better than I have in the past. So although it might still come bearded - it will be cleaner, if Steve says I must, I will.
Absolutely delicious. 14 years of adaptation.
We have loved this carrot for 32 seasons. We got the original seed from Bill McDorman back in the early 90's and when he ran out of seed, we picked up growing it out and occasionally, have enough to put it on the market. It's truly special. Crisp, sweet, holds seemingly forever in the soil and never gets woody, it's forgiving of any soil type and that's just for starters.
Back in the day when Cord was working as a blacksmith, we would 'seal the deal' with the client by pulling up a Kinko 6" and letting them crunch it - right there on the spot. While they were still in a delicious, carrot trance, we would get them to sign off on the iron project. It gave us clout.
Now, as seed growers, it is a long, two-year process, taking up lots of room in the garden and the fridge, it is prone to disaster, (like ground animals stealing them or horses eating all the seed right before harvest), and we often do not get much seed. However, it has been worth it to offer this amazing carrot to the world, even on a small scale. So although the quantity will be somewhat limited, it is worth it to grow even a small patch in your garden.
Our friend Steve Peters (FAMOUS SEED GROWER), says I must clean the bearded seed better than I have in the past. So although it might still come bearded - it will be cleaner, if Steve says I must, I will.
Absolutely delicious. 14 years of adaptation.
Mountain Sweet Corn For 2025
WE HAVE CANDY MOUNTAIN AGAIN THIS YEAR!!!!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO TRY IT!! PACKETS ARE $3.50 AND COME WITH ABOUT 100 SEEDS!
CANDY MOUNTAIN SWEET CORN
A 73-DAY SUPER SWEET CORN FOR THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE!!!
ADAPT IT TO YOUR MOUNTAIN - IT CAME FROM KEN FISHER TO BILL MCDORMAN TO THE PARMENTERS
GROWN IN THE OPEN AT HIGH ELEVATION
PLANTS DON'T GET TOO TALL - A GREAT FEATURE FOR WIND
OPEN POLLINATED SUPER SWEET CORN - KEN FISHER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INCREDIBLE WORK - BY OFFERING AN OPEN-POLLINATED SWEET CORN SINCE THE 80'S. CANDY MOUNTAIN IS THE FASTEST, SWEETEST CORN WE KNOW AND YOU CAN SAVE YOUR SEEDS!
14 YEARS OF ADAPTATION
CANDY MOUNTAIN SWEET CORN
A 73-DAY SUPER SWEET CORN FOR THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE!!!
ADAPT IT TO YOUR MOUNTAIN - IT CAME FROM KEN FISHER TO BILL MCDORMAN TO THE PARMENTERS
GROWN IN THE OPEN AT HIGH ELEVATION
PLANTS DON'T GET TOO TALL - A GREAT FEATURE FOR WIND
OPEN POLLINATED SUPER SWEET CORN - KEN FISHER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INCREDIBLE WORK - BY OFFERING AN OPEN-POLLINATED SWEET CORN SINCE THE 80'S. CANDY MOUNTAIN IS THE FASTEST, SWEETEST CORN WE KNOW AND YOU CAN SAVE YOUR SEEDS!
14 YEARS OF ADAPTATION
Cord in the corn.
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CANDY MOUNTAIN SWEET CORN
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Cord and a Big Ol' Northern Bush Pumpkin
NORTHERN BUSH PUMPKIN!
Cucurbita pepo
We've grown this pumpkin for 33 years, in the open at 8,000'. You can too! Longest storage pumpkin I've ever met. I've seen it store for over a year. Another great offering from the late, great, Ken Fisher.
90 DAYS - GROWN IN THE OPEN AT 8,000' - DEVELOPED IN MONTANA
LARGE, EXCELLENT STORAGE PUMPKIN - EXPECT PUMPKINS BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD OR MUCH BIGGER, DEPENDING ON ALTITUDE AND CLIMATE. WE'VE GROWN 15 POUNDERS HERE.
12 SEEDS PER PACKET - $3.75
14 YEARS OF ADAPTATION
Cucurbita pepo
We've grown this pumpkin for 33 years, in the open at 8,000'. You can too! Longest storage pumpkin I've ever met. I've seen it store for over a year. Another great offering from the late, great, Ken Fisher.
90 DAYS - GROWN IN THE OPEN AT 8,000' - DEVELOPED IN MONTANA
LARGE, EXCELLENT STORAGE PUMPKIN - EXPECT PUMPKINS BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD OR MUCH BIGGER, DEPENDING ON ALTITUDE AND CLIMATE. WE'VE GROWN 15 POUNDERS HERE.
12 SEEDS PER PACKET - $3.75
14 YEARS OF ADAPTATION
Bring 'em in green if it snows!
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Northern Bush - flagged in forefront.
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As big as my head.
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Ripening on the vine!
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They come in mostly ripe now.
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Toma Verde
Toma Verde Tomatillo
60 days - Annual - Open Pollinated
Once you grow tomatillos, they have a way of reseeding themselves so you always have them. Easy to grow at altitude, vigorous plants bear beautiful green, roundish, large fruits.
You can direct seed or start them 4-6 weeks before the last frost date.
Delicious - let's make some Salsa Verde!
Original seed from Stately Farm in Cañon City, Colorado
60 days - Annual - Open Pollinated
Once you grow tomatillos, they have a way of reseeding themselves so you always have them. Easy to grow at altitude, vigorous plants bear beautiful green, roundish, large fruits.
You can direct seed or start them 4-6 weeks before the last frost date.
Delicious - let's make some Salsa Verde!
Original seed from Stately Farm in Cañon City, Colorado
French Breakfast Radish
French Breakfast Radish
Raphanus sativus
24 days - Annual
My favorite radish! Bi-color, elongated radish grows very quickly in cool weather. Give them steady moisture and plant every few weeks for a continuous harvest. Direct seed in the garden starting 4 weeks before the last frost. Radish's can take some cold!
The shape of these are perfect for dipping and they are great for breakfast, I love them with eggs. All parts of the radish plant is edible - from the first greens to the flowers to the seed pods to sprouts.
Plant 1/4" - 1/2" deep and about 2-3" apart.
Easy to grow - delicious - not too hot and beautiful on the plate. Enjoy!
Raphanus sativus
24 days - Annual
My favorite radish! Bi-color, elongated radish grows very quickly in cool weather. Give them steady moisture and plant every few weeks for a continuous harvest. Direct seed in the garden starting 4 weeks before the last frost. Radish's can take some cold!
The shape of these are perfect for dipping and they are great for breakfast, I love them with eggs. All parts of the radish plant is edible - from the first greens to the flowers to the seed pods to sprouts.
Plant 1/4" - 1/2" deep and about 2-3" apart.
Easy to grow - delicious - not too hot and beautiful on the plate. Enjoy!
Di Cicco Broccoli
Brassica oleracea
Di Cicco Broccoli
60-70 days to maturity. The best thing about De Cicco Broccoli besides the outstanding flavor is the growth habit. Beautiful plants produce nutritious greens and large solid heads of Broccoli that do not bolt quickly. In fact, they seem to hold forever, especially in the cool mountains. Broccoli likes it cool, both for germination and for growing.
After you harvest the main head, side shoots will continue to grow until well after frost. Keep harvesting, they are equally delicious.
You can start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost and you can direct sow. If you do both, you will have a succession planting as the seedlings will grow faster than the seeds, giving you a longer harvest period.
We like to interplant vase-shaped broccoli with fat-bottomd Chinese Cabbage. It makes a great relay planting.
My all-time favorite Broccoli.
Small Batch - Limited Quantity
Di Cicco Broccoli
60-70 days to maturity. The best thing about De Cicco Broccoli besides the outstanding flavor is the growth habit. Beautiful plants produce nutritious greens and large solid heads of Broccoli that do not bolt quickly. In fact, they seem to hold forever, especially in the cool mountains. Broccoli likes it cool, both for germination and for growing.
After you harvest the main head, side shoots will continue to grow until well after frost. Keep harvesting, they are equally delicious.
You can start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost and you can direct sow. If you do both, you will have a succession planting as the seedlings will grow faster than the seeds, giving you a longer harvest period.
We like to interplant vase-shaped broccoli with fat-bottomd Chinese Cabbage. It makes a great relay planting.
My all-time favorite Broccoli.
Small Batch - Limited Quantity
GREENS FOR 2024 - MORE IN THE STORE!
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Bloomsdale Long-standing Spinach Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed Lettuce
MISS PENN'S TOMATOES
Posing Tomatoes
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 Miss Penn's Tomatoes
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Tomatoes in the snow!
TOP TWELVE EARLY MOUNTAIN-ADAPTED TOMATOES - (SO HARD TO PICK):
SASHA'S ALTAI
MOSCOW
GALINA
SILVERY FIR TREE
AURORA
BLACK MAURI
BLACK FROM TULA
STUPICE
NORTHERN LIGHT
COLDSET
ARBALET
MT. ROMA
SASHA'S ALTAI
MOSCOW
GALINA
SILVERY FIR TREE
AURORA
BLACK MAURI
BLACK FROM TULA
STUPICE
NORTHERN LIGHT
COLDSET
ARBALET
MT. ROMA
TIPS IF IT'S OVERWHELMING:
*TOMATO SEEDS TAKE 5-15 DAYS TO GERMINATE AND THEN I STILL DON'T GIVE UP ON THEM - SEEDS IN THE SAME PACKET CAN GERMINATE AT DIFFERENT RATES - DON'T GIVE UP!
*LOOK FOR DAYS TO MATURITY TO FIT YOUR CLIMATE - MOUNTAIN PEOPLE - CHOOSE THE SHORTEST DAYS POSSIBLE
*LOOK FOR ORIGIN AND TRY TO MATCH ENVIRONMENTS
*RUSSIAN AND SIBERIAN TOMATOES ARE GREAT FOR THE MOUNTAINS
*ARIZONA, AFGHANISTAN, AUSTRIALIA AND IRAQI TOMATOES ARE GREAT FOR THE HEAT OF THE DOWN BELOW!
*MOUNTAIN PEOPLE - LONG SEASON TOMATOES - GROW IN THE GREENHOUSE
*ALSO - LONG SEASON TOMATOES - GROW IN A POT AND BRING THEM IN TO FINISH OUT IN WINTER
*A LONG SEASON TOMATO IS 80-90 DAYS
*A SHORT SEASON TOMATO IS 50-65 DAYS
*CREATE STRUCTURES, COVERS OR ENVIRONMENTS THAT TOMATOES LOVE
*HAPPY ZONE FOR A TOMATO - 55-85 DEGREES
*PROVIDING AFTERNOON SHADE IS A GOOD THING IN THE WEST - ESPECIALLY DOWN BELOW
*IF YOU HAVE TO GROW IN THE OPEN - CHOOSE FROM THE LIST ABOVE OR OTHERS THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN GROWN IN THE OPEN
*ITS BETTER TO WAIT FOR WARM SOIL AND STABLE WEATHER TO PLANT TOMATOES - TOO SOON IS SUDDEN DEATH - PATIENCE!
*AT ELEVATION - WE DON'T SET OUT TOMATOES UNTIL THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF JUNE - UNLESS ITS SNOWING
*AT ELEVATION - WE START TOMATO SEEDS ALL THROUGH APRIL - THEY ARE READY IN 4-6 WEEKS - PERFECT!
*IN 2020, WE HELD THE TOMATOES UNTIL THE TOP OF JULY - THEY FINISHED OUT IN LATE SEPTEMBER - IT WAS STILL IN THE 30'S AT NIGHT OR SNOWING ALL THROUGH JUNE
*EVERY YEAR IN COLORADO IS DIFFERENT - KEEP AN OPEN HEART AND START WITH A CLEAN SLATE
Determinate means 'Bush'
Indeterminate means 'Vining'
Semi-Determinate means a little of both
LET'S GET STARTED!
0-33
OUT OF STOCK!!
0-33 - early - Russia - Determinate
Such flavor! "Lick-my-fingers-good." I kept yelling wow! Then a pause and then, WOW! Loved the flavor of this one. Early slicer sized red beauties with great flavor. Crazy early it seemed. I wrote, "Sweet flesh and tangy skin, a party in my mouth." Not bad for a newb.
Ramp up your flavor with some pots of these early birds sitting around - I think they will make you happy.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
0-33 - early - Russia - Determinate
Such flavor! "Lick-my-fingers-good." I kept yelling wow! Then a pause and then, WOW! Loved the flavor of this one. Early slicer sized red beauties with great flavor. Crazy early it seemed. I wrote, "Sweet flesh and tangy skin, a party in my mouth." Not bad for a newb.
Ramp up your flavor with some pots of these early birds sitting around - I think they will make you happy.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Abu Rawan
Abu Rawan – Iraq - Determinate
Heat-tolerant deep red, slightly squatty, delicious 2-3 oz. tomatoes. Dense but juicy, I loved their flavor. Named for the caretaker of the greenhouses at the Agricultural College at Al Ghraib. Seed source is from Venetucci Farms in Colorado Springs to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Heat-tolerant deep red, slightly squatty, delicious 2-3 oz. tomatoes. Dense but juicy, I loved their flavor. Named for the caretaker of the greenhouses at the Agricultural College at Al Ghraib. Seed source is from Venetucci Farms in Colorado Springs to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Agassiz
Agassiz - Early-Mid-season - North Dakota - Determinate
This tomato is perfect. It sets the most uniform, perfect clusters of fruit - very impressive. It bears heavily and easily. It can be described as 'meaty and juicy' which seems strange but true. Mild beginning, finishes with strong flavor. Gorgeous on the vine.
Alaska
Alaska - Early - Russia - Determinate
What a prolific plant! This Big/Little tomato covers itself in flowers and sets lovely 1-2 oz perfectly round red fruits. Very nice growth habit for containers and small spaces. The multitudes of fruits will make you happy. Juicy delicious.
Grown in the open at 8120' it's first year. Welcome to the mountain.
What a prolific plant! This Big/Little tomato covers itself in flowers and sets lovely 1-2 oz perfectly round red fruits. Very nice growth habit for containers and small spaces. The multitudes of fruits will make you happy. Juicy delicious.
Grown in the open at 8120' it's first year. Welcome to the mountain.
Alaskan Fancy
Alaskan Fancy - 54 days - Alaska/Canada - Semi-determinate
This little sucker tastes so good you will make a happy face as you taste it. Very early, easy to grow - another great choice for a cool, short season. I've read reports of it being somewhat drought tolerant too! 4-6 oz. red fruits born in clusters. Strong tomato flavor.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
This little sucker tastes so good you will make a happy face as you taste it. Very early, easy to grow - another great choice for a cool, short season. I've read reports of it being somewhat drought tolerant too! 4-6 oz. red fruits born in clusters. Strong tomato flavor.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Allegory Sunset
Allegory Sunset - 70 days - Canada
What a beauty! I fell in love with this tomato in my new Mothership Greenhouse. The flavor is wonderful, fruity, tropical, fragrant and sweet. The color is mesmerizing, orange/yellow with a pink or salmon inside. A new favorite for form, beauty and flavor. The fruits are large and slightly oblong, stunning. The plant grows just right, it's not a wild thing and it's not wimpy either - nice and strong and showed resistance to bugs and disease in the greenhouse.
Seeds from my friend Jillian Bishop from urbantomato.ca in Canada.
Alpatieva 905A
Alpatieva 905A - 65 days - Russia - Dwarf - Determinate
Oooooooo this is a goody. I jumped around the kitchen with this in my mouth. Yeah, this was really good, sweet undertones right off the bat - but a zingy thing going on too. Really, really good. Sweet and zingy.
Plants are strong and sturdy and grew in the open under a tree at 8,000' it's first year. I bow down. The flavor of this one makes it one of the stand-outs of the season.
Rugose leaves on stocky plants.
Great container plant - grows 18" - 24". 2 - 5 oz. fruits.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Oooooooo this is a goody. I jumped around the kitchen with this in my mouth. Yeah, this was really good, sweet undertones right off the bat - but a zingy thing going on too. Really, really good. Sweet and zingy.
Plants are strong and sturdy and grew in the open under a tree at 8,000' it's first year. I bow down. The flavor of this one makes it one of the stand-outs of the season.
Rugose leaves on stocky plants.
Great container plant - grows 18" - 24". 2 - 5 oz. fruits.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Alpine
OUT OF STOCK!
Alpine - 59 days - Cheyenne, Wyoming - USA - Indeterminate
Holy Moly what a delicious tomato for the high country. Beautiful to behold and great flavor to boot. Easy to grow, early, the plant is large and sprawling - needs staking to hold up the heavy load that comes with this variety.
Best part - I grew this the first year with no cover at 8,120' - not even kidding. It did great in the open - gotta love a tomato with heart.
Firm and juicy golf ball sized tomatoes with a balanced flavor and sweet finish. I 'taste tested' it three times - kept going back for more, the aftertaste taunted me. Developed in the 1950's - this Wyoming Heirloom is TASTY!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Alpine - 59 days - Cheyenne, Wyoming - USA - Indeterminate
Holy Moly what a delicious tomato for the high country. Beautiful to behold and great flavor to boot. Easy to grow, early, the plant is large and sprawling - needs staking to hold up the heavy load that comes with this variety.
Best part - I grew this the first year with no cover at 8,120' - not even kidding. It did great in the open - gotta love a tomato with heart.
Firm and juicy golf ball sized tomatoes with a balanced flavor and sweet finish. I 'taste tested' it three times - kept going back for more, the aftertaste taunted me. Developed in the 1950's - this Wyoming Heirloom is TASTY!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Amish Paste
Amish Paste - 85 days - Pennsylvania - Indeterminate - Heirloom
This paste tomato has been loved for generations. While it is a thick-walled cooking tomato, it has slightly more juice than the average paste which makes it a great candidate for fresh eating and for salsa. Few seeds.
Some of the 6-12 oz fruits are more elongated and some like a fat plum. Either way, this long season tomato is a classic and worth a try.
Good flavor with a sweet finish and the aftertaste hung around a good long while - a gift that keeps on coming.
Another small batch by a small batch farmer so...
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
This paste tomato has been loved for generations. While it is a thick-walled cooking tomato, it has slightly more juice than the average paste which makes it a great candidate for fresh eating and for salsa. Few seeds.
Some of the 6-12 oz fruits are more elongated and some like a fat plum. Either way, this long season tomato is a classic and worth a try.
Good flavor with a sweet finish and the aftertaste hung around a good long while - a gift that keeps on coming.
Another small batch by a small batch farmer so...
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Anasazi
BACK FOR 2025!!
Mystery Tomato of Unknown Origin
The seed for this delicious beauty came from the Taste of Tomato party in Boulder - that's right - at Harlequin's Gardens - not to be missed in the future. I smeared a few seeds from my taste-testing bite into my pocket and we grew it out. Not only is the color ridiculous but the flavor stood up to the masses, described as good balanced deep tomato flavor with thick walls. This tomato is fleshy around the outside and juicy in the middle.
We have more to learn about this mystery tomato - we are not sure if the name is correct or not but we will grow it again and share what we learn.
Mystery Tomato of Unknown Origin
The seed for this delicious beauty came from the Taste of Tomato party in Boulder - that's right - at Harlequin's Gardens - not to be missed in the future. I smeared a few seeds from my taste-testing bite into my pocket and we grew it out. Not only is the color ridiculous but the flavor stood up to the masses, described as good balanced deep tomato flavor with thick walls. This tomato is fleshy around the outside and juicy in the middle.
We have more to learn about this mystery tomato - we are not sure if the name is correct or not but we will grow it again and share what we learn.
Anna Russian
Anna Russia - 70 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Big, gorgeous oxheart tomato loaded with juice and flavor. This is a classic Russian with flavor bragging rights. As with all oxhearts, the plant is droop-leafed - some call it 'wilted-leaf', some call it feather-leaf. The point is - it's not a disease. They are sprawling plants with wispy foliage. One of the greats.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Big, gorgeous oxheart tomato loaded with juice and flavor. This is a classic Russian with flavor bragging rights. As with all oxhearts, the plant is droop-leafed - some call it 'wilted-leaf', some call it feather-leaf. The point is - it's not a disease. They are sprawling plants with wispy foliage. One of the greats.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Arbalet
Arbalet - early - Russia - Determinate
So, Mt. Roma is always my favorite paste for the mountains. But this new paste tomato whupped butt this year, coming on strong and fast. The plant was fully loaded and was one of the first tomatoes to ripen up here in the clouds. But then, the evaluation came and I was blown away.
Tangy robust flavor. Delicious aftertaste. Firm-walled – bright red – juicy. When I tried it again, I yelled, 'so delicious'! WOW! For flavor – this roma is amazing! Balanced. Just good. Some got fat like the picture but mostly they are elongated plum-shaped tomatoes. A new favorite.
Seed Source: The Seed Saver's Exchange - from a lister in Iceland.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
So, Mt. Roma is always my favorite paste for the mountains. But this new paste tomato whupped butt this year, coming on strong and fast. The plant was fully loaded and was one of the first tomatoes to ripen up here in the clouds. But then, the evaluation came and I was blown away.
Tangy robust flavor. Delicious aftertaste. Firm-walled – bright red – juicy. When I tried it again, I yelled, 'so delicious'! WOW! For flavor – this roma is amazing! Balanced. Just good. Some got fat like the picture but mostly they are elongated plum-shaped tomatoes. A new favorite.
Seed Source: The Seed Saver's Exchange - from a lister in Iceland.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Arkansas Traveler
Arkansas Traveler - 80-90 days - Southern USA Heirloom
Round to ovate fruits vary in size, but are average chicken-egg size. Incredibly delicious. Very tolerant to high heat and humidity, diseases, dry periods and cracking. Excellent for eating fresh, canning, stewing, dehydrating. Fruit stores and ships well, hence the name, “Traveler”. Large, open seed chambers make seed saving easy. Firm, thick-walled flesh. 5-petaled flowers on 5-6’ vines. Killed by freezing. Tender perennial, grown as an annual crop. Open Pollinated Heirloom. Original seed from ThunderFoot and these are his words.
Round to ovate fruits vary in size, but are average chicken-egg size. Incredibly delicious. Very tolerant to high heat and humidity, diseases, dry periods and cracking. Excellent for eating fresh, canning, stewing, dehydrating. Fruit stores and ships well, hence the name, “Traveler”. Large, open seed chambers make seed saving easy. Firm, thick-walled flesh. 5-petaled flowers on 5-6’ vines. Killed by freezing. Tender perennial, grown as an annual crop. Open Pollinated Heirloom. Original seed from ThunderFoot and these are his words.
Atomic Grape
Atomic Grape - 75 days - California - Indeterminate
Another incredible tomato from Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. The colors are amazing - the picture shown here does not do it justice, golden brown finishes the color parade. The flavor was outstanding - I kept writing, "smoooooooth - well balanced, sweeeeeet."
Lavender, purple, then goes green, reddish-brown, with anthocyanin blue stripes when it's done. I mean c'mon!
He calls it a large cherry but it's almost a plum type. The foliage is wispy and wild like most oxhearts and puts on a mighty load.
Another incredible tomato from Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. The colors are amazing - the picture shown here does not do it justice, golden brown finishes the color parade. The flavor was outstanding - I kept writing, "smoooooooth - well balanced, sweeeeeet."
Lavender, purple, then goes green, reddish-brown, with anthocyanin blue stripes when it's done. I mean c'mon!
He calls it a large cherry but it's almost a plum type. The foliage is wispy and wild like most oxhearts and puts on a mighty load.
Aurora
Aurora – 65 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Scarlet 3-6 oz. fruits on heavily loaded but very polite vines. Although an indeterminate - this plant keeps a nice, controlled shape and loads from bottom to top. Deep, fabulous flavor, this is a great tomato for the mountain garden. One of my new 'sure thing' recommendations.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Scarlet 3-6 oz. fruits on heavily loaded but very polite vines. Although an indeterminate - this plant keeps a nice, controlled shape and loads from bottom to top. Deep, fabulous flavor, this is a great tomato for the mountain garden. One of my new 'sure thing' recommendations.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Aussie
OUT OF STOCK!
Aussie – 85 days – Australia - Indeterminate
Huge, abundant and vigorous. This is used for competition in Australia – 1-2 lb. beefsteaks bursting with old-fashioned flavor. Brilliant, crimson red interior - to make your mouth water. Gorgeous, perfect fruits weigh in as promised.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Aussie – 85 days – Australia - Indeterminate
Huge, abundant and vigorous. This is used for competition in Australia – 1-2 lb. beefsteaks bursting with old-fashioned flavor. Brilliant, crimson red interior - to make your mouth water. Gorgeous, perfect fruits weigh in as promised.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Azoychka
Azoychka – 70 days – Russia - Indeterminate
Delightful, small, yellow beefsteak that ripens early in the mountain garden. Delicious balanced flavor with a hint of citrus. Plant stays relatively small but fruits over a long period. Easier to grow than some. Also does well in the greenhouse.
Delightful, small, yellow beefsteak that ripens early in the mountain garden. Delicious balanced flavor with a hint of citrus. Plant stays relatively small but fruits over a long period. Easier to grow than some. Also does well in the greenhouse.
Beaverlodge
Beaverlodge Slicer - 54 days - Canada - Determinate
Very early, disease resistant, prolific. Great flavor, perfect, blemish-free fruits cover the small, compact plants.
I mean, c'mon, this tomato has everything you want for the mountain garden. Grown in the open right around 8,000'.
Round, red, delicious, two slices for a sandwich - yummy!
Original seed from Kai
Very early, disease resistant, prolific. Great flavor, perfect, blemish-free fruits cover the small, compact plants.
I mean, c'mon, this tomato has everything you want for the mountain garden. Grown in the open right around 8,000'.
Round, red, delicious, two slices for a sandwich - yummy!
Original seed from Kai
Beefsteak
Beefsteak – 70 days - Indeterminate
Firm, flavorful, huge beefsteaks. Strong vines are disease resistant. An old favorite on surprisingly vigorous plants even in the open garden. Did well at 8,000' in the open and even better at 7,200' in the open.
Seed source from 1996 Michael Leonard Inc. seeds to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Firm, flavorful, huge beefsteaks. Strong vines are disease resistant. An old favorite on surprisingly vigorous plants even in the open garden. Did well at 8,000' in the open and even better at 7,200' in the open.
Seed source from 1996 Michael Leonard Inc. seeds to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Berkeley Tie-Dye, Pink
Berkeley Tie-Dye, Pink - 75-80 days - California - Indeterminate
Boom! Here's a beauty for you. Such a luscious tomato. So exotic and wonderful. Superb flavor leaves you wanting more. Medium to large fluted beefsteaks. Port wine color with brown/green shoulders and green stripes. Absolutely gorgeous. From Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms.
Original seed gifted to me from Alison.
Boom! Here's a beauty for you. Such a luscious tomato. So exotic and wonderful. Superb flavor leaves you wanting more. Medium to large fluted beefsteaks. Port wine color with brown/green shoulders and green stripes. Absolutely gorgeous. From Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms.
Original seed gifted to me from Alison.
Big Rainbow
Big Rainbow - 82 days - Minnesota - Indeterminate
Such a beauty. Gorgeous bi-color. Yellow with red and pink marbling and bigger than a handful. These grew to size in La Veta, Colorado at 7,200' above sea level! I never expected them to get so big. Sweet, fruity flavor and an artist's dream sliced on the plate. Glorious and delicious.
Black Bear
Black Bear - 70-75 days - Russia - Indeterminate
LOVED this thing! Gorgeous and the flavor to rock your world. Incredible color and they can get huge - like a bear. Slightly flattened, fluted beefsteaks.
Here's exactly what I wrote while chewing:
"SO good – yum, yum – aftertaste is incredible – deep, sweet, smoky. Rich, earthy, tomatoey – everything you want in a tomato for flavor – so freaking good."
LOVED this thing! Gorgeous and the flavor to rock your world. Incredible color and they can get huge - like a bear. Slightly flattened, fluted beefsteaks.
Here's exactly what I wrote while chewing:
"SO good – yum, yum – aftertaste is incredible – deep, sweet, smoky. Rich, earthy, tomatoey – everything you want in a tomato for flavor – so freaking good."
Black Cherry
Black Cherry – 65 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Perfectly round, deep mahogany clusters are delicious, complex and rich tasting. Plants are vigorous and tall with finely divided leaves. A touch of sweetness finishes off the deep flavor. Gorgeous on and off the vine.
Perfectly round, deep mahogany clusters are delicious, complex and rich tasting. Plants are vigorous and tall with finely divided leaves. A touch of sweetness finishes off the deep flavor. Gorgeous on and off the vine.
Black Crimson
BACK FOR 2025!!
Black Crimson - 75 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
There is some confusion about this killer tomato. It's so good it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. It's the darkest thing I've ever seen - absolutely beautiful deep, dark color. The flavor is succulent - like fine wine but more sweet. Luscious. A new favorite for flavor. Sandhill Preservation Center sells both Black Crimson and Black Krim as different tomatoes. The seeds I grow are different too. So I'll let you decide - grow them side-by-side and run your own trial. I think they are different. I want one right now.
Great market tomato - they can get much bigger than the picture. Plants are very prolific, much more so than Black Krim. Second flavor test even better than the first. Outstanding tomato!
Black Crimson - 75 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
There is some confusion about this killer tomato. It's so good it makes my mouth water just thinking about it. It's the darkest thing I've ever seen - absolutely beautiful deep, dark color. The flavor is succulent - like fine wine but more sweet. Luscious. A new favorite for flavor. Sandhill Preservation Center sells both Black Crimson and Black Krim as different tomatoes. The seeds I grow are different too. So I'll let you decide - grow them side-by-side and run your own trial. I think they are different. I want one right now.
Great market tomato - they can get much bigger than the picture. Plants are very prolific, much more so than Black Krim. Second flavor test even better than the first. Outstanding tomato!
Black From Tula
Black From Tula – 70+ days – Russia - Indeterminate.
A large, deep purplish brown 8-12 oz. tomato with a rich, sweet and spicy flavor. I love this tomato not only for the glorious fruit but it loads heavy and fast for such a honker. Awesome for the mountain garden.
Seed source from Westcliffe Seed Swap to me.
A large, deep purplish brown 8-12 oz. tomato with a rich, sweet and spicy flavor. I love this tomato not only for the glorious fruit but it loads heavy and fast for such a honker. Awesome for the mountain garden.
Seed source from Westcliffe Seed Swap to me.
Black Krim
Black Krim – 69 days – Russia - Indeterminate
Dark, deep red to shiny black with green shoulders. Unusual, early and tasty. Interior is a deep reddish green color. From the Black Sea area of Russia. Medium to large fruits. Grew well at 7,200' - no problem. This tomato is excellent, balanced, rich flavor and boasts a very distinctive color.
Dark, deep red to shiny black with green shoulders. Unusual, early and tasty. Interior is a deep reddish green color. From the Black Sea area of Russia. Medium to large fruits. Grew well at 7,200' - no problem. This tomato is excellent, balanced, rich flavor and boasts a very distinctive color.
Black Mauri
Black Mauri – 65 days – Russia - Indeterminate
So prolific - beautiful plants were loaded with these 2 oz. or bigger dark jewels. We moaned over the rich sauce on the pizza - the flavor stood up to the pie and wowed us with it's deep, exotic taste. Deep and rich with a sweet finish. You'll get your money's worth with this daddy - highly recommended.
Black Plum
Black Plum - 72 days - Indeterminate
Beautifully dark and easy to grow, this plum tomato loads to high heaven. Slightly smaller than Black Mauri with a firm thick wall. Excellent paste tomato. You can do what you want with this puppy, it's gonna deliver in quantity and quality. Another gorgeous sauce or stunner on the plate.
Black Prince
Black Prince - Russia - 70 days - Indeterminate
A true Russian Heirloom - one of the first black tomatoes to hit the market. Loved for years by chefs and gardeners alike. Deep tomato flavor with a deep garnet color. They do very well in cooler climates. 2-3 oz uniform beauties are juicy and fruity.
Beautiful dark color inside and out. A classic.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
A true Russian Heirloom - one of the first black tomatoes to hit the market. Loved for years by chefs and gardeners alike. Deep tomato flavor with a deep garnet color. They do very well in cooler climates. 2-3 oz uniform beauties are juicy and fruity.
Beautiful dark color inside and out. A classic.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Black Sea Man
Black Sea Man – 75 days – Russia - Determinate
Medium brownish-pink 6-10 oz. fruits with olive green shading. Flesh is marbled black, red and green. Gorgeous sliced. Potato leafed, rich flavor.
Heirloom originally from Marina Danilenko.
Seed source from Seed Savers Exchange to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Medium brownish-pink 6-10 oz. fruits with olive green shading. Flesh is marbled black, red and green. Gorgeous sliced. Potato leafed, rich flavor.
Heirloom originally from Marina Danilenko.
Seed source from Seed Savers Exchange to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Blue Green Zebra
Blue Green Zebra - 75-80 - Washington - Indeterminate
One of Tom Wagner's amazing tomatoes - check him out - the possibilities will blow your mind. Juicy, bright and flavorful, this is one of those eye-widening experiences when you taste it. And then a sweet finish. The aftertaste was so good I kept going back for more. I did not mind the almost crunchy skin, the flavor of the skin compliments the whole thing - very interesting and yummy. GORGEOUS. Prolific!
Here's what my brother Michael said while eating it, "It tastes like a tomato at first and then it reaches out and smacks you in the face!"
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Bonsai
OUT OF STOCK!
Bonsai - 65 days - Russia - Dwarf - Determinate
Dark green rugose leaves form a perfect round mound of tight tomato foliage.
A great container plant, this one sports a juicy yet firm Roma shaped tomato just right for fresh salsa or for slow cooking sauce. I've grown it for two years now and it's found its way right into the program around here. Plants are so tidy and attractive that they go anywhere. An early patio tomato that does well in containers or the garden bed. The foliage covers the fruit entirely, when you lift up her skirts you will find loads of juicy roma tomatoes - gotta try it!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Bonsai - 65 days - Russia - Dwarf - Determinate
Dark green rugose leaves form a perfect round mound of tight tomato foliage.
A great container plant, this one sports a juicy yet firm Roma shaped tomato just right for fresh salsa or for slow cooking sauce. I've grown it for two years now and it's found its way right into the program around here. Plants are so tidy and attractive that they go anywhere. An early patio tomato that does well in containers or the garden bed. The foliage covers the fruit entirely, when you lift up her skirts you will find loads of juicy roma tomatoes - gotta try it!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Brandywine
Brandywine – 85 days – Ohio - Indeterminate
Vigorous potato-leafed vines produce delicious 3” 1 lb fruits. Beautiful rose-red beefsteaks with that undeniable flavor. Ben Quisenberry is the grower behind these amazing heirlooms - beloved for years, they really deliver.
Vigorous potato-leafed vines produce delicious 3” 1 lb fruits. Beautiful rose-red beefsteaks with that undeniable flavor. Ben Quisenberry is the grower behind these amazing heirlooms - beloved for years, they really deliver.
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt – early – Russia - Indeterminate
Russian tradition gives special guests bread and salt as they arrive to show hospitality and long friendship. Large pink wedge-shaped beauties. 6-10 oz.
Droop leafed.
Russian tradition gives special guests bread and salt as they arrive to show hospitality and long friendship. Large pink wedge-shaped beauties. 6-10 oz.
Droop leafed.
Some of 'em!
Bucket Mix – 48-90 days - Colorado
Saving tomato seed requires a ‘wet save’ – fermenting the seeds, then rinsing them clean with water. I catch the seed water into a bucket to pour on the compost. There is always good seed left in the bottom of the buckets and I can't throw it away so – this is every variety I grow. Whenever a tomato gets lost - falls off the vine - it goes in the mixed bucket and the seed is saved together - another reason for the name.
1-10 years of adaption. Lg. seed count.
Seed source from everywhere to me.
Saving tomato seed requires a ‘wet save’ – fermenting the seeds, then rinsing them clean with water. I catch the seed water into a bucket to pour on the compost. There is always good seed left in the bottom of the buckets and I can't throw it away so – this is every variety I grow. Whenever a tomato gets lost - falls off the vine - it goes in the mixed bucket and the seed is saved together - another reason for the name.
1-10 years of adaption. Lg. seed count.
Seed source from everywhere to me.
Burgess' Earliest and Best
Burgess' Earliest and Best - 75 days - Tested in Cheyenne Wyoming - Indeterminate
Old fashioned tomato, old fashioned flavor. Small to medium round red fruits come on early enough for short-season gardens. Prolific enough to make a batch! Grown in the open at 7,500' - no cover.
Tomatoes ripen to full red.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Cappuccino
Cappuccino - 60-70 days - Indeterminate
Luscious smoky brown cherry tomato giving high yields. 1 oz, can be grape shaped or round. Vigorous grower loads up with these beautifully colored fruits some say reminds them of coffee. I say it's a delicious, complex flavored tomato! Add this one to your collection - a feast for the eyes and the palette.
Another great find through the Seed Saver's Exchange.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Luscious smoky brown cherry tomato giving high yields. 1 oz, can be grape shaped or round. Vigorous grower loads up with these beautifully colored fruits some say reminds them of coffee. I say it's a delicious, complex flavored tomato! Add this one to your collection - a feast for the eyes and the palette.
Another great find through the Seed Saver's Exchange.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Carbon
Carbon - 76 days - NY - Indeterminate
Juicy, lightly sweet and bigger than a handful. Big, beautiful, cracky and delicious - lots of juice. Good yield and my friend in Rye, Co at 6,500' has success with it in a container in the open.
Chadwick Cherry
OUT OF STOCK!!
Chadwick Cherry – 80 days - Indeterminate
Delicious, sweet flavor in a 1 oz. round, red beauty. Developed by the late, great horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. Large cherries in abundant clusters. Disease resistant with huge yields.
Chadwick Cherry – 80 days - Indeterminate
Delicious, sweet flavor in a 1 oz. round, red beauty. Developed by the late, great horticultural expert Alan Chadwick. Large cherries in abundant clusters. Disease resistant with huge yields.
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Chocolate - 80 days - USA - Indeterminate
The flavor of this mahogany/brown, stabilized version of Cherokee Purple will knock your socks off. So sweet and rich and complex, my eyes flew open at the first bite and I started yelling and making yummy noises. I love it when a tomato variety totally surprises me. The chocolaty color is interesting on the plate as well.
One of the stand-outs for flavor in 2022.
The flavor of this mahogany/brown, stabilized version of Cherokee Purple will knock your socks off. So sweet and rich and complex, my eyes flew open at the first bite and I started yelling and making yummy noises. I love it when a tomato variety totally surprises me. The chocolaty color is interesting on the plate as well.
One of the stand-outs for flavor in 2022.
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Green - 80 days - USA
6 oz - 1 lb, Cherokee Green is a large, beautiful beefsteak selected by Craig LeHoullier. Excellent, complex flavor with gorgeous color, this is a fine tomato. It's ripe when the bottom turns yellow-green. Outstanding.
6 oz - 1 lb, Cherokee Green is a large, beautiful beefsteak selected by Craig LeHoullier. Excellent, complex flavor with gorgeous color, this is a fine tomato. It's ripe when the bottom turns yellow-green. Outstanding.
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Purple - 80 days - Tennessee - Indeterminate
Flavorful and abundant purple-red, beefsteak shaped fruits are firm with dark flesh. All-purpose – popular - delicious. This tomato showed amazing adaptability in the winter greenhouse! From the Cherokee Nation.
Flavorful and abundant purple-red, beefsteak shaped fruits are firm with dark flesh. All-purpose – popular - delicious. This tomato showed amazing adaptability in the winter greenhouse! From the Cherokee Nation.
Cherry Roma
Cherry Roma - 75 days - USA
1" red 'mini romas' on branching plants. Excellent flavor with fruits that stay firm and fresh after picking. Long yield. Great uniform fruits for market.
Original seed from my friend Jillian Bishop at urbantomato.ca in Canada.
Chinese Velvet
Chinese Velvet - 70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
Covered in a light golden fuzz, Chinese Velvet is a beautiful Angora type tomato, worthy of petting. A gorgeous ornamental thing, it contrasts wonderfully amongst the other green varieties. The leaves and fruit compliment each other - both covered in fuzz. Flavor is mild and slightly sweet.
Very Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Other Angora or Peach type varieties I carry are; Red Velvet, Pink Peach, Garden Peach and Churra Plum.
Chinese Velvet - 70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
Covered in a light golden fuzz, Chinese Velvet is a beautiful Angora type tomato, worthy of petting. A gorgeous ornamental thing, it contrasts wonderfully amongst the other green varieties. The leaves and fruit compliment each other - both covered in fuzz. Flavor is mild and slightly sweet.
Very Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Other Angora or Peach type varieties I carry are; Red Velvet, Pink Peach, Garden Peach and Churra Plum.
Chocolate Stripes
Chocolate Stripes - 79 days - USA - Indeterminate
3-4" mahogany fruits with dark green striping. A thing to behold. Holds a long time after harvested, great for markets. Perfect, smooth tomatoes load heavily on tall plants.
Perfect for sandwich's and salads, and cheese boards. Flavor is deep, rich and sweet.
3-4" mahogany fruits with dark green striping. A thing to behold. Holds a long time after harvested, great for markets. Perfect, smooth tomatoes load heavily on tall plants.
Perfect for sandwich's and salads, and cheese boards. Flavor is deep, rich and sweet.
Chocolate Wonder
OUT OF STOCK!!
Chocolate Wonder - 75-80 days - Unknown Origin
Deep, rich flavor, smooth as chocolate – slides right over the taste buds. Long, deep luscious aftertaste. Medium to large fruits on indeterminate vines. Brown/red color is to die for. Big enough for hamburgers.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Chocolate Wonder - 75-80 days - Unknown Origin
Deep, rich flavor, smooth as chocolate – slides right over the taste buds. Long, deep luscious aftertaste. Medium to large fruits on indeterminate vines. Brown/red color is to die for. Big enough for hamburgers.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Clear Lake
Clear Lake - Mid-season - Indeterminate
Deeply colored, purple/black fruits can get up to 12 oz. I like it - gorgeous color with a great flavor and rich aftertaste. A beautiful thing. Large-lobed beefy things - they look like an heirloom. A rare find from The Sandhill Preservation Center.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Clear Pink Early
OUT OF STOCK!
Clear Pink Early – 58 days - Russia - Determinate
Early, compact plants produce abundant clusters of clear pink tomatoes. Round, smooth - 3-6 oz. fruits, sweet and tangy flavor, grows well in the mountains.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Clear Pink Early – 58 days - Russia - Determinate
Early, compact plants produce abundant clusters of clear pink tomatoes. Round, smooth - 3-6 oz. fruits, sweet and tangy flavor, grows well in the mountains.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Cluj Yellow Cherry
Cluj Yellow Cherry - 77 days - Romania - Indeterminate
Orange when ripe, this thin-walled beauty loads with goodness. Somewhat thick skinned and juicy. Sweet.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Cluj Yellow Cherry - 77 days - Romania - Indeterminate
Orange when ripe, this thin-walled beauty loads with goodness. Somewhat thick skinned and juicy. Sweet.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Coldset
Cold Set – 68 days – Ontario - Determinate
For areas with cold June weather. Seeds can be sown in 50 degree soil. Deep-red, smooth, uniform 4-6 oz. fruits are good canners. Very good flavor in a meaty tomato. Meat means sauce to me. Early, prolific!
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Seed source from 1989 Gurney's to me.
For areas with cold June weather. Seeds can be sown in 50 degree soil. Deep-red, smooth, uniform 4-6 oz. fruits are good canners. Very good flavor in a meaty tomato. Meat means sauce to me. Early, prolific!
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Seed source from 1989 Gurney's to me.
Cosmonaut Volkov
BACK FOR 2025!!!!
Cosmonaut Volkov - 65-70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate - Heirloom
Excellent flavor! One of the best in this year's taste tests. Sweet, juicy, gorgeous. Deep pink very large fluted beefsteaks. 1-2 lbs is not unusual.
Hard to beat for flavor and looks. I was very impressed.
Full-bodied balanced sweet/tangy flavor.
Cosmonaut Volkov - 65-70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate - Heirloom
Excellent flavor! One of the best in this year's taste tests. Sweet, juicy, gorgeous. Deep pink very large fluted beefsteaks. 1-2 lbs is not unusual.
Hard to beat for flavor and looks. I was very impressed.
Full-bodied balanced sweet/tangy flavor.
Costoluto Genovese
Costoluto Genovese - 80 days - Italy - Indeterminate
Fluted, flattened, with deep ribs and intense flavor. Popular for fresh eating and preserving. Deep red flesh. This heirloom is long loved for that familiar flavor of Italian tomatoes.
This is an absolute classic Italian tomato. Once sliced, the ribs look like a flower on the plate. A must try.
This is a long season tomato....plant accordingly!
Fluted, flattened, with deep ribs and intense flavor. Popular for fresh eating and preserving. Deep red flesh. This heirloom is long loved for that familiar flavor of Italian tomatoes.
This is an absolute classic Italian tomato. Once sliced, the ribs look like a flower on the plate. A must try.
This is a long season tomato....plant accordingly!
Crimson Sprinter
Crimson Sprinter – 65 days - Canada - Semi-determinate
High in lycopene content due to the famous crimson gene, this 5-7 oz. beauty ripens early on the vine. I've grown Crimson Sprinter for years in the open garden at 8,120 ft. and before that it was grown at 5,000 ft. This puppy is juicy - you will wipe your chin in glee. Refreshing taste.
Fruits get much bigger in the greenhouse. Unsung hero.
Original seed source from Beki Javernick of Canon City to me.
High in lycopene content due to the famous crimson gene, this 5-7 oz. beauty ripens early on the vine. I've grown Crimson Sprinter for years in the open garden at 8,120 ft. and before that it was grown at 5,000 ft. This puppy is juicy - you will wipe your chin in glee. Refreshing taste.
Fruits get much bigger in the greenhouse. Unsung hero.
Original seed source from Beki Javernick of Canon City to me.
Cyril's Choice
Cyril's Choice - early - England - Dwarf Determinate
An old English heirloom. Small to saladette sized, 2-5 oz. bright red beauties. Rugosa leaves on a very giving dwarf plant. Grows only to about 3'. Nice and tidy for such an early tomato. This plant gives many flushes - it doesn't want to stop. Great sweet flavor with beautiful fruits. They are ultimately redder than the pic. Very Early!
An English Family Heirloom - grown by D. Rankilor whose brother Cyril grew it on his allotment before he died. Then given to The Seed Ambassador's Project by the Heritage Seed Library, England. On to the Seed Savers Exchange to me.
An old English heirloom. Small to saladette sized, 2-5 oz. bright red beauties. Rugosa leaves on a very giving dwarf plant. Grows only to about 3'. Nice and tidy for such an early tomato. This plant gives many flushes - it doesn't want to stop. Great sweet flavor with beautiful fruits. They are ultimately redder than the pic. Very Early!
An English Family Heirloom - grown by D. Rankilor whose brother Cyril grew it on his allotment before he died. Then given to The Seed Ambassador's Project by the Heritage Seed Library, England. On to the Seed Savers Exchange to me.
Dakota Gold
Dakota Gold – 70 days - North Dakota - Determinate
Great market tomato – uniform 6-10 oz. yellow globes can withstand extreme conditions of the north. Small plants set very early. Flavor is sweet and tangy with thin skins on near perfect globes.
Great market tomato – uniform 6-10 oz. yellow globes can withstand extreme conditions of the north. Small plants set very early. Flavor is sweet and tangy with thin skins on near perfect globes.
Dark Orange Muscat
Dark Orange Muscat - 60-70 days - Ireland - Indeterminate
Wow this is an interesting tomato. A 'dark orange' cherry but with unusual coloring. Bronze shoulders, greenish insides, excellent, sweet, fruity flavor. I got these seeds from Suzanne Ashworth through the Seed Savers Exchange.
She got it from Andrew Still who got it from Madeline Mckeever of Brown Envelope Seeds in Ireland. Madeline got it from a seed saver in Washington State while at an Organic Seed Alliance Conference. Whew! This seed has traveled! Awesome cherry to add to your collection. Beautiful color.
Photo from Tatiana's
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Wow this is an interesting tomato. A 'dark orange' cherry but with unusual coloring. Bronze shoulders, greenish insides, excellent, sweet, fruity flavor. I got these seeds from Suzanne Ashworth through the Seed Savers Exchange.
She got it from Andrew Still who got it from Madeline Mckeever of Brown Envelope Seeds in Ireland. Madeline got it from a seed saver in Washington State while at an Organic Seed Alliance Conference. Whew! This seed has traveled! Awesome cherry to add to your collection. Beautiful color.
Photo from Tatiana's
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Delicious
Delicious – 77 days – Indeterminate - America
Guinness Record Holder – 7 lbs.
Wow - Delicious is an understatement - this tomato is good! And there is more of it to love. These things just want to be huge and dee-lish. Although mid season and developed somewhere else - this tomato did great at 7,200'. Easy peasey to get 1 or more pounders up high! At 8,000 ft. in the open it gave slicer sized beauties. For those of you down below, better be prepared for a humongous tomato - to easily cover a giant's piece of bread - you'll have no problem growing it. Old fashioned delicious flavor, meaty interior and juice around the edges. Words like luscious and balanced come up in my notes. Aftertaste is outrageous - leaving you with fond memories. Resists cracking, stores well. Very large 1 - 2 lbs. With a little care - many people get huge results and 3 pounders are considered normal. Staking is absolutely necessary.
Seed source from 1980 Gurney's to me.
Guinness Record Holder – 7 lbs.
Wow - Delicious is an understatement - this tomato is good! And there is more of it to love. These things just want to be huge and dee-lish. Although mid season and developed somewhere else - this tomato did great at 7,200'. Easy peasey to get 1 or more pounders up high! At 8,000 ft. in the open it gave slicer sized beauties. For those of you down below, better be prepared for a humongous tomato - to easily cover a giant's piece of bread - you'll have no problem growing it. Old fashioned delicious flavor, meaty interior and juice around the edges. Words like luscious and balanced come up in my notes. Aftertaste is outrageous - leaving you with fond memories. Resists cracking, stores well. Very large 1 - 2 lbs. With a little care - many people get huge results and 3 pounders are considered normal. Staking is absolutely necessary.
Seed source from 1980 Gurney's to me.
Druzba
Druzba - 80 days - Bulgaria - Indeterminate - Heirloom
Perfectly uniform, 6-8 oz. firm fruits come on in abundant clusters. Wow this is a great producer. Would make a great market tomato. Fruits can get darker red than the picture but these seeds produced an orange-red strain.
Just the right amount of juice to meat, great for slicing or salsas.
Blemish free, disease resistant, an old family heirloom. Introduced by Carolyn Male in 1995.
Perfectly uniform, 6-8 oz. firm fruits come on in abundant clusters. Wow this is a great producer. Would make a great market tomato. Fruits can get darker red than the picture but these seeds produced an orange-red strain.
Just the right amount of juice to meat, great for slicing or salsas.
Blemish free, disease resistant, an old family heirloom. Introduced by Carolyn Male in 1995.
Dr. Wyche's
NEW FOR 2025!!
Dr. Wyche's - 75-85 days - Oklahoma - Indeterminate - Heirloom
I love a good story. Dr. Wyche lived in Oklahoma and grew this tomato using elephant manure as fertilizer. Legend has it that the circus over-wintered near him and that's how he got his hands on elephant poop. He also scattered lion and tiger poop to deter deer and rabbits!
My friend Kai loves this tomato. He grew it very successfully at 7,600' under a caterpillar tunnel. I grow long season tomatoes under cover or in a greenhouse at my elevation. This tomato is slightly sweet but rich flavored, juicy and is a perfect slicer due to dense meat.
This is a multi-purpose tomato - great fresh, cooked, canned, frozen and roasted. Can reach 1 lb - big ol' beefsteaks!
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Dr. Wyche's - 75-85 days - Oklahoma - Indeterminate - Heirloom
I love a good story. Dr. Wyche lived in Oklahoma and grew this tomato using elephant manure as fertilizer. Legend has it that the circus over-wintered near him and that's how he got his hands on elephant poop. He also scattered lion and tiger poop to deter deer and rabbits!
My friend Kai loves this tomato. He grew it very successfully at 7,600' under a caterpillar tunnel. I grow long season tomatoes under cover or in a greenhouse at my elevation. This tomato is slightly sweet but rich flavored, juicy and is a perfect slicer due to dense meat.
This is a multi-purpose tomato - great fresh, cooked, canned, frozen and roasted. Can reach 1 lb - big ol' beefsteaks!
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Dwarf Arctic Rose
Dwarf Arctic Rose - 58-65 days - Australia, USA - Dwarf Indeterminate
Another amazing find from The Dwarf Tomato Project. A big giver, this sturdy, rugose-leafed dark green beauty bears pink 3-7 oz. round to oblate tomatoes. Expect smooth tomatoes with a delicious, balanced flavor.
I'm keeping this one on the roster - I really like it's willing attitude.
Great for containers - only gets about 3' tall. Grown in the open at 8,120' it's first year.
Another amazing find from The Dwarf Tomato Project. A big giver, this sturdy, rugose-leafed dark green beauty bears pink 3-7 oz. round to oblate tomatoes. Expect smooth tomatoes with a delicious, balanced flavor.
I'm keeping this one on the roster - I really like it's willing attitude.
Great for containers - only gets about 3' tall. Grown in the open at 8,120' it's first year.
Dwarf Golden Heart
Dwarf Golden Heart - 70 days - USA, Australia - Dwarf Indeterminate
Delicious fruity flavored yellow hearts adorn dwarf, container-friendly plants with deep green rugose foliage. Excellent balanced flavor. 4-6 oz. golden yellow blunt hearts are easy to work with - medium sized with some being slightly oblate.
I was most impressed with the plants' toughness - it was abused and neglected and still gave a nice load of perfect tomatoes. They smell tropical - with citrus undertones. Comes on sweet and finishes zingy. Would be great in the smoothie.
Another impressive offer from The Dwarf Tomato Project.
Delicious fruity flavored yellow hearts adorn dwarf, container-friendly plants with deep green rugose foliage. Excellent balanced flavor. 4-6 oz. golden yellow blunt hearts are easy to work with - medium sized with some being slightly oblate.
I was most impressed with the plants' toughness - it was abused and neglected and still gave a nice load of perfect tomatoes. They smell tropical - with citrus undertones. Comes on sweet and finishes zingy. Would be great in the smoothie.
Another impressive offer from The Dwarf Tomato Project.
Eva Purple Ball
Eva Purple Ball - 65-70 days - Black Forest, Germany
Hello Eva. So nice to meet you. My notes about you say 'sweet and juicy' - with increasing flavor and a nice aftertaste. Eva Purple Ball grew in the open at 8,000' just fine. Original seed comes from my friend in Canada where it kicks butt in a short season. Perfect pink globes. Indeterminate vines.
Picture shows slightly over-ripe tomatoes.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Original seed from my friend Jillian Bishop at urbantomato.ca in Canada.
Fakel
Fakel – 75 days – Russia - Determinate
Flame-red 3.5” fruits with excellent flavor. Considered a good canning tomato. Stores very well, and the productive, compact plants are great for containers.
Flame-red 3.5” fruits with excellent flavor. Considered a good canning tomato. Stores very well, and the productive, compact plants are great for containers.
Fence Row
Fence Row - 70 days - Illinois - Indeterminate
Thought to be discovered along a fence row in Paris, Illinois in 1975. 1" round, red cherry tomatoes with a lovely flavor. Vigorous plant loads up nicely for pop-in-your-mouth goodness.
Thought to be discovered along a fence row in Paris, Illinois in 1975. 1" round, red cherry tomatoes with a lovely flavor. Vigorous plant loads up nicely for pop-in-your-mouth goodness.
Fiaschetto di Manduria
Fiaschetto di Manduria - 65-70 days - Italy - Semi-Determinate
Oh, this is a good one. Very prolific, perfect fruits with great flavor. This tomato is very popular in southeast Italy, called a regional treasure in Puglia. Known for making great sauce, it is also delicious for fresh eating. This tomato is dry-land farmed in Italy and is quite drought-tolerant, excellent for the Rockies.
It is also a great drying tomato - similar to Principe Borghese - perfectly sized to cut in half and dehydrate for winter eating.
Such a beauty!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Oh, this is a good one. Very prolific, perfect fruits with great flavor. This tomato is very popular in southeast Italy, called a regional treasure in Puglia. Known for making great sauce, it is also delicious for fresh eating. This tomato is dry-land farmed in Italy and is quite drought-tolerant, excellent for the Rockies.
It is also a great drying tomato - similar to Principe Borghese - perfectly sized to cut in half and dehydrate for winter eating.
Such a beauty!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Flint Yellow
Flint Yellow - 75 days - Colorado - Indeterminate
I got this plant from Perennial Favorite's in Rye, Colorado; they were featuring these real Colorado heirlooms in their catalog and I had to try them. Turns out - many years of adaptation to Colorado makes these plants vigorous and strong and they grew very well here in the open at 8,000'.
Original seed comes from the Bill Flint family who passed it down to Michael Boyd who shared it with our friends at Perennial Favorites who sold plants to me who collected the seeds who hopes to sell them to you. This is how it works.
Flint Yellow is full-bodied and fruity - great flavor. The plant is covered with trusses of bright yellow beauties. A must try for the Colorado gardener. This little plum will get your attention for flavor and yield. A real Colorado heirloom.
PS - working on re-stocking "Flint Red"!
Frosted Green Dr's
NEW FOR 2025!!
Frosted Green Doctors - 70 days - USA/Canada - Indeterminate
Oh man this is a delicious tomato - I mean effing DELICIOUS! These are from a 5 year old plant in one of our no-fuel greenhouses and they always taste incredible. Our plant is 14' tall and it lives the life of a perennial. These fruits are ripe when the butt turns amber.
This tomato was discovered by two separate people, one in the US and the other in Canada. The frosted part comes from an epidermis mutation of Green Doctors, another awesome green cherry tomato selected by two PhD's. This mutation produced clear-skinned green cherry tomatoes which gives them their 'frosted' look.
You need 'em, you'll love 'em, you gotta try 'em.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Frosted Green Doctors - 70 days - USA/Canada - Indeterminate
Oh man this is a delicious tomato - I mean effing DELICIOUS! These are from a 5 year old plant in one of our no-fuel greenhouses and they always taste incredible. Our plant is 14' tall and it lives the life of a perennial. These fruits are ripe when the butt turns amber.
This tomato was discovered by two separate people, one in the US and the other in Canada. The frosted part comes from an epidermis mutation of Green Doctors, another awesome green cherry tomato selected by two PhD's. This mutation produced clear-skinned green cherry tomatoes which gives them their 'frosted' look.
You need 'em, you'll love 'em, you gotta try 'em.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Fruit Punch
Fruit Punch - 75 days - USA - Indeterminate
Unbelievably sweet and fruity. Just delicious! Tall, sprawling plants bear a heavy load of perfect 1 oz. fruit clusters. Gorgeous dark pink color. Delightful.
Unbelievably sweet and fruity. Just delicious! Tall, sprawling plants bear a heavy load of perfect 1 oz. fruit clusters. Gorgeous dark pink color. Delightful.
Galina
Galina – 59 days – Siberia - Indeterminate *******
Incredible earliness and oh that flavor! Vigorous, potato-leafed vines load with glorious trusses of award winning gold cherries. Galina will grow 12' tall if you let her - and if you chop her back she will grow again. So good, highly prolific.
One of my all-time favorites.
14 years of adaption. A sure thing.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft. and in the greenhouse.
Incredible earliness and oh that flavor! Vigorous, potato-leafed vines load with glorious trusses of award winning gold cherries. Galina will grow 12' tall if you let her - and if you chop her back she will grow again. So good, highly prolific.
One of my all-time favorites.
14 years of adaption. A sure thing.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft. and in the greenhouse.
Gardener's Delight
Gardener's Delight - 65-70 days - Germany - Indeterminate
This is exactly what I wrote while eating it:
"Great flavor – just right for a cherry. Prolific, perfect and delicious – damn right. This one’s got a beginning, a middle and an end – all good."
What more can I say?
This is exactly what I wrote while eating it:
"Great flavor – just right for a cherry. Prolific, perfect and delicious – damn right. This one’s got a beginning, a middle and an end – all good."
What more can I say?
Garden Peach
Garden Peach – 71 days – NY - Indeterminate
1-3 oz. fruits are a lovely light yellow with a pink blush when ripe. Skin is fuzzy – these are tender morsels! Stores well. There are other "Peach" tomatoes too - I also have Pink Peach and Ghost Cherry.
These seeds came from a plant I got from Tammi Hartung at Desert Canyon Farm in Canon City. The plants grew stocky like a determinate but it is always listed as a viner. It set early too.
1-3 oz. fruits are a lovely light yellow with a pink blush when ripe. Skin is fuzzy – these are tender morsels! Stores well. There are other "Peach" tomatoes too - I also have Pink Peach and Ghost Cherry.
These seeds came from a plant I got from Tammi Hartung at Desert Canyon Farm in Canon City. The plants grew stocky like a determinate but it is always listed as a viner. It set early too.
Gem State
Gem State – 58 days – Idaho - Determinate
Great flavor from a compact, container-friendly plant. Red, 2 oz. fruits are fast and delicious. This plant gave and gave in the greenhouse, they are easy to pop in your mouth. Great flavor.
Also grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Great flavor from a compact, container-friendly plant. Red, 2 oz. fruits are fast and delicious. This plant gave and gave in the greenhouse, they are easy to pop in your mouth. Great flavor.
Also grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
German Johnson
German Johnson - 80 days - Virginia/North Carolina - Indeterminate
Such a beautiful beefsteak. Pink-red color makes it stand out at the market. Grows vigorously and give 7-14 oz tomatoes. Seemed like they could make a pound with a little love. Flavor and yield is excellent. Regular leaf.
Glacier
Glacier - 55 days - Sweden - Determinate
Often first to ripen on small, potato-leafed plants. Great for short-season, cool climate gardens, 2-3 oz. sweet, flavorful red tomatoes.
Robust tomato flavor for an extra-early tomato. Almost fruity. Prolific.
Grown in the open garden at 8120 ft
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Often first to ripen on small, potato-leafed plants. Great for short-season, cool climate gardens, 2-3 oz. sweet, flavorful red tomatoes.
Robust tomato flavor for an extra-early tomato. Almost fruity. Prolific.
Grown in the open garden at 8120 ft
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Glasnost
Glasnost – 62 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Shiny and smooth, deep red-orange skin with a dense meaty interior. 3-6 oz. beauties.
Fine flavor and very early. Easy to grow.
Shiny and smooth, deep red-orange skin with a dense meaty interior. 3-6 oz. beauties.
Fine flavor and very early. Easy to grow.
Golden Currant
Golden Currant - 70 days - Indeterminate
Solanum pimpinellifolium
Tiny currant tomatoes are packed with intense flavor - truly delicious and totally prolific. Grace your table with piles of golden trusses to compliment any meal. A healthy snack for young and old.
Golden Grape
Golden Grape - Arizona – Ind.
Unique, early and very productive. Very suitable for greenhouse or outdoor growing. Fruits resemble Thompsons Seedless Grapes, but are a sunny yellow color. Heat tolerant. Original seed from ThunderfooT.
This seed comes from Cornville, Az. - high and dry desert. Golden Grape actually likes the heat - no problemo - when others shrivel - this beauty rocks out large grape cherries. Deep tomato flavor.
Unique, early and very productive. Very suitable for greenhouse or outdoor growing. Fruits resemble Thompsons Seedless Grapes, but are a sunny yellow color. Heat tolerant. Original seed from ThunderfooT.
This seed comes from Cornville, Az. - high and dry desert. Golden Grape actually likes the heat - no problemo - when others shrivel - this beauty rocks out large grape cherries. Deep tomato flavor.
Golden Jubilee
Golden Jubilee - 75 days - USA - Indeterminate - Heirloom
What a delicious find! The color of this tomato is truly luscious, almost fluorescent - and the flavor is wonderful. True tomato flavor, with a bit of that old fashioned 'zing' we love. Makes a wonderful canner or slicer. Firm tomatoes with strong walls makes it easy to slice. Plenty of meat for cooking too - I made a beautiful sauce - sometimes I pull it out of the freezer just to look at the audacious color.
Can get quite large, 6-12 ounces.
When you cut them open through the equator the color is at it's best - be sure to take a pic.
What a delicious find! The color of this tomato is truly luscious, almost fluorescent - and the flavor is wonderful. True tomato flavor, with a bit of that old fashioned 'zing' we love. Makes a wonderful canner or slicer. Firm tomatoes with strong walls makes it easy to slice. Plenty of meat for cooking too - I made a beautiful sauce - sometimes I pull it out of the freezer just to look at the audacious color.
Can get quite large, 6-12 ounces.
When you cut them open through the equator the color is at it's best - be sure to take a pic.
Golden King of Siberia
Golden King of Siberia – Russia - Indeterminate
Big, lemon-yellow oxhearts are bright and refreshing. Huge, sweet, meaty yet juicy. “Like a summer day.” (Droop-leafed) Fern-like foliage will droop - don't mistake it for a disease - this is how they grow. Sprawling plants are far-reaching, setting these glorious oxhearts far out on the vine. A wild thing. It makes my heart sing.
Big, lemon-yellow oxhearts are bright and refreshing. Huge, sweet, meaty yet juicy. “Like a summer day.” (Droop-leafed) Fern-like foliage will droop - don't mistake it for a disease - this is how they grow. Sprawling plants are far-reaching, setting these glorious oxhearts far out on the vine. A wild thing. It makes my heart sing.
Gold Nugget
Gold Nugget – 60 days - Oregon - Determinate
Fast, compact plants produce loads of beautiful, golden-yellow, cherry tomatoes! Slightly oval, 1” fruits with tender skins.
Nice, manageable plant sets lots of early trusses, great flavor - truly tasty treats. This tomato could give Sungold a run for it's money!
Fast, compact plants produce loads of beautiful, golden-yellow, cherry tomatoes! Slightly oval, 1” fruits with tender skins.
Nice, manageable plant sets lots of early trusses, great flavor - truly tasty treats. This tomato could give Sungold a run for it's money!
Gold Rush Currant
Gold Rush Currant Tomato - 75 days - Holland - Indeterminate
Solanum pimpinellifolium
Such a productive little beauty. Imagine 10-12 currant sized tomatoes on each truss. All power-packed with flavor. Sweet and like all currants - they pack a punch. Puts any other garnish to shame and makes an incredible snack. Prolific!
Goluboy Les
Goluboy Les - 69 days - Russia - Translates to "Blue Forest"
Sent to me from Dale Thurber of Delectation of Tomatoes - another wild tomato collector. Thanks Dale - he told me this was a good one and he was right! Unlike many 'indigo' colored tomatoes, this one stands out for flavor.
These are my notes:
Beautiful, exotic color. The seed gel is a coppery, burnt orange, but outside it’s dark blue (indigo), to exotic red. Great flavor to start – a bit sweet and delicious and then it was like it released a salty finish. Like it salted itself after the initial flavor. Very interesting. Highly prolific, almost early – beautiful. WOW.
Tomatoes are not ripe until the butts turn red.
Sent to me from Dale Thurber of Delectation of Tomatoes - another wild tomato collector. Thanks Dale - he told me this was a good one and he was right! Unlike many 'indigo' colored tomatoes, this one stands out for flavor.
These are my notes:
Beautiful, exotic color. The seed gel is a coppery, burnt orange, but outside it’s dark blue (indigo), to exotic red. Great flavor to start – a bit sweet and delicious and then it was like it released a salty finish. Like it salted itself after the initial flavor. Very interesting. Highly prolific, almost early – beautiful. WOW.
Tomatoes are not ripe until the butts turn red.
Great White
Great White - 85 days - USA
1-2 pound beauties - creamy white with a slight pink blush from the bottom up. Sweet flavor, juicy goodness will run down your chin. Easy to grow and amazingly prolific for a long season tomato. Regular leaf.
Green Tiger
Green Tiger- 70 days - California - Indeterminate
Another luscious green variety to wake up your taste buds. My friend Jennifer loved this tomato and recommended it to me for it's sweet, hard-to-define goodness. Flavor is outstanding. Chef's love this tomato for its great flavor, artisan looks - green with yellow and dark green stripes, and for the julienne shape. They get bigger than the picture. This is the work of Fred Hempel.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Another luscious green variety to wake up your taste buds. My friend Jennifer loved this tomato and recommended it to me for it's sweet, hard-to-define goodness. Flavor is outstanding. Chef's love this tomato for its great flavor, artisan looks - green with yellow and dark green stripes, and for the julienne shape. They get bigger than the picture. This is the work of Fred Hempel.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Green Zebra
Green Zebra – 75 days – Washington - Indeterminate
Sweet and zingy – so good! Green and yellow striped 4-5 oz. round tomatoes are stunning on the plate and the vine. Very vigorous plants - sprawling and strong, prolific and highly adaptable, Green Zebra is happy to grow in many conditions. The flavor makes your eyebrows go up. You will like it. Tom Wagner creation.
Sweet and zingy – so good! Green and yellow striped 4-5 oz. round tomatoes are stunning on the plate and the vine. Very vigorous plants - sprawling and strong, prolific and highly adaptable, Green Zebra is happy to grow in many conditions. The flavor makes your eyebrows go up. You will like it. Tom Wagner creation.
Gregori's Altai
Gregori’s Altai – 67 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Home-grown flavor is a sure thing with this beautiful 4” 8-10 oz. red tomato. Dense meat makes it easy to slice.
A great tomato, heavy producer, heavy beefsteaks with killer tomatoey flavor.
So early for it's size.
Home-grown flavor is a sure thing with this beautiful 4” 8-10 oz. red tomato. Dense meat makes it easy to slice.
A great tomato, heavy producer, heavy beefsteaks with killer tomatoey flavor.
So early for it's size.
Gribnoe Lukoshko
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Gribnoe Lukoshko - 75 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Translation "Mushroom Basket"
Bright pink fluted beefsteaks come on strong. Prolific, great flavor, absolutely gorgeous! Large, 8-16 oz. ribbed, juicy, sweet. Delicious aftertaste. The slices are beautiful - like a flower.
I'm listing this by its original name, the translation, "Mushroom Basket" is a marketing tactic and while its translation is cute, I will remain true to its origin. Somebody selected this beauty after all!
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Gribnoe Lukoshko - 75 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Translation "Mushroom Basket"
Bright pink fluted beefsteaks come on strong. Prolific, great flavor, absolutely gorgeous! Large, 8-16 oz. ribbed, juicy, sweet. Delicious aftertaste. The slices are beautiful - like a flower.
I'm listing this by its original name, the translation, "Mushroom Basket" is a marketing tactic and while its translation is cute, I will remain true to its origin. Somebody selected this beauty after all!
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry
Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry - 70-75 days - Indeterminate
This is an interesting cherry tomato. It ripens a light yellow color with slight stripes similar to a gooseberry. Great flavor, sweet and mild, prolific plants, easy to grow.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Heinz 1439
Heinz 1439 – Heirloom - Determinate
For fresh market as well as ketchups, purees and sauces. Resists cracking on smooth, round, 4-6 oz. meaty globes. There are many Heinz varieties but this one is quite popular. All Heinz varieties are great for cooking and for eating fresh, truly an all-purpose tomato.
This tomato rocked out at 7,200' in the open and gave hundreds of pounds! If you want production - keep picking - it will replace whatever you take.
They easily get bigger than the picture - a nice slicer size.
For fresh market as well as ketchups, purees and sauces. Resists cracking on smooth, round, 4-6 oz. meaty globes. There are many Heinz varieties but this one is quite popular. All Heinz varieties are great for cooking and for eating fresh, truly an all-purpose tomato.
This tomato rocked out at 7,200' in the open and gave hundreds of pounds! If you want production - keep picking - it will replace whatever you take.
They easily get bigger than the picture - a nice slicer size.
High Country
High Country - early - Montana
This elusive, luscious paste tomato has finally been restored to my memories of it from the early days. Offered by Bill McDorman way back when, (the 90's), it either changed, or got lost and I missed it terribly. I hunted it down through the Seed Saver's Exchange, (of course), securing original seed and grew it out this year. Oh my - such a beauty! The color is a feast for the eyes - dark, deep red, I described the flavor as 'luscious', it's prolific, and fast. My notes also said juicy and when a 'roma' type tomato is juicy, it just means flavor and maybe cooking the sauce down for a few more minutes. It also means it's a good tomato for fresh eating so go ahead and make pico de gallo. 'Teardrop' shaped.
Ahhhhhh. I love restoring these long lost friends.
You'll love it too.
This elusive, luscious paste tomato has finally been restored to my memories of it from the early days. Offered by Bill McDorman way back when, (the 90's), it either changed, or got lost and I missed it terribly. I hunted it down through the Seed Saver's Exchange, (of course), securing original seed and grew it out this year. Oh my - such a beauty! The color is a feast for the eyes - dark, deep red, I described the flavor as 'luscious', it's prolific, and fast. My notes also said juicy and when a 'roma' type tomato is juicy, it just means flavor and maybe cooking the sauce down for a few more minutes. It also means it's a good tomato for fresh eating so go ahead and make pico de gallo. 'Teardrop' shaped.
Ahhhhhh. I love restoring these long lost friends.
You'll love it too.
Honey Pearl
Honey Pearl – 90 days – Arizona - Indeterminate
(Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)
Extremely small pale yellow currant tomato with a full-bodied, sweet and spicy flavor. Vigorous viner can volunteer in warm places. Original seed from ThunderfooT. Desert adapted.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
(Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)
Extremely small pale yellow currant tomato with a full-bodied, sweet and spicy flavor. Vigorous viner can volunteer in warm places. Original seed from ThunderfooT. Desert adapted.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Ida Gold
Ida Gold – 59 days – Idaho - Determinate
Early, low-acid bright orange tomato comes on in large quantities of 2-3 oz. fruits. Great flavor and easy to grow.
So early - on a spreading, though bush type plant.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Early, low-acid bright orange tomato comes on in large quantities of 2-3 oz. fruits. Great flavor and easy to grow.
So early - on a spreading, though bush type plant.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Ildi
Ildi – 68 days - Indeterminate
These lovely oval yellow cherries are the size of a large grape, with a well-balanced flavor that is a delicious combination of sweet and acid. Vigorous, prolific plants often bear 50-80 fruits per cluster!
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
These lovely oval yellow cherries are the size of a large grape, with a well-balanced flavor that is a delicious combination of sweet and acid. Vigorous, prolific plants often bear 50-80 fruits per cluster!
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Indigo Apple
Indigo Apple - 70-days - California - Indeterminate
Vigorous plants produce this super healthy, divine looking tomato. This is what I wrote while eating it for the first time:
"Delicious and sweet and lovely and candy like. Good good. Great skin too. Crunchy but not too much. Gorgeous with lots and lots of seeds. Great flavor – really good. Fruity."
Wow your friends and slap this sucker down on the plate!
Developed by Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms in California.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Isis Candy
Isis Candy - 75 days - New Jersey - Indeterminate
Such a beauty - truly special and so good. This high-yielding tomato will wow your plate and your palette with it's intensely sweet flavor. It's yellow-gold with pink-red marbling - making each one uniquely beautiful.
They taste as good as they look.
Such a beauty - truly special and so good. This high-yielding tomato will wow your plate and your palette with it's intensely sweet flavor. It's yellow-gold with pink-red marbling - making each one uniquely beautiful.
They taste as good as they look.
Ispolin
Ispolin – 70 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Spectacular big round pink-red 1-2 lb. fruits can load 7’ vines. Deep, tomato flavor in a hurry.
So far, Ispolin is setting smaller fruits than the description. I've read about this happening to others. If you get very large fruits - write to me. Flavor is outstanding.
Spectacular big round pink-red 1-2 lb. fruits can load 7’ vines. Deep, tomato flavor in a hurry.
So far, Ispolin is setting smaller fruits than the description. I've read about this happening to others. If you get very large fruits - write to me. Flavor is outstanding.
Italian Winter Tomato
Italian Winter Tomato - unknown DTM - Colorado
This is a drying tomato - the kind you hang in your kitchen over the winter. Pull up the whole plant before the first fall frost and hang it upside down somewhere out of full sun in your house. Green tomatoes will ripen on the vine this way and ripe ones will hold a long time.
Thick skins and low juice make these perfect for long, winter storage. Small, cherry/grape sized fruits are wildly prolific. You could hang them in a root cellar too.
Start seeds indoor 4-8 weeks before the last frost. All tomatoes like warm soil and stable night-time temperatures before they are planted.
Original seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
This is a drying tomato - the kind you hang in your kitchen over the winter. Pull up the whole plant before the first fall frost and hang it upside down somewhere out of full sun in your house. Green tomatoes will ripen on the vine this way and ripe ones will hold a long time.
Thick skins and low juice make these perfect for long, winter storage. Small, cherry/grape sized fruits are wildly prolific. You could hang them in a root cellar too.
Start seeds indoor 4-8 weeks before the last frost. All tomatoes like warm soil and stable night-time temperatures before they are planted.
Original seed from Vibrant Earth Seeds
Japanese Black Trifele
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Japanese Black Trifele - 70 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Wildly prolific, this dark red to almost brown tomato rocked out under single cover last year. The 4-5 oz. pear-shaped tomatoes came on strong, potato-leafed plants. LARGE LOAD PEOPLE.
You can definitely make a batch with this thing. Flavor was was sweet to start but after I cooked it, it was even more rich and complex. They held for a very long time and they don't crack when picked. They would make a great market tomato for their uniformity and hold. Firm walls, gorgeous color.
Do anything you want with this one - multi-purpose for sure.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Japanese Black Trifele - 70 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Wildly prolific, this dark red to almost brown tomato rocked out under single cover last year. The 4-5 oz. pear-shaped tomatoes came on strong, potato-leafed plants. LARGE LOAD PEOPLE.
You can definitely make a batch with this thing. Flavor was was sweet to start but after I cooked it, it was even more rich and complex. They held for a very long time and they don't crack when picked. They would make a great market tomato for their uniformity and hold. Firm walls, gorgeous color.
Do anything you want with this one - multi-purpose for sure.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Jaune Flammee
Jaune Flammée - 50-60 days - France
Oh such a tomato. Flame orange in a saladette makes a perfectly unusual but beautiful addition to the plate. Scoring very high on the flavor scale - the Brix for this tomato is off the charts - to taste it is to love it. A branching habit on indeterminate vines, try it for a rich, fruity flavor sure to please. Versatile fresh or cooked. Very early!!
Oh such a tomato. Flame orange in a saladette makes a perfectly unusual but beautiful addition to the plate. Scoring very high on the flavor scale - the Brix for this tomato is off the charts - to taste it is to love it. A branching habit on indeterminate vines, try it for a rich, fruity flavor sure to please. Versatile fresh or cooked. Very early!!
John Baer
John Baer - 75 days - USA - Indeterminate
This selection was discovered by a guy named John Baer - in a field of 'Bonny Best' in 1914. So - an heirloom. You can spot a John Baer out of a basket of tomatoes as it's incredible color stands out. Before turning an absolutely dark, glossy red-red, it has an almost coppery hue to it - just beautiful.
Thankfully the flavor is good too. Balanced flavor with a hint of sweetness. Plenty of juice in a 4-8 oz tomato.
Vigorous plants bear lots of blemish-free, uniform fruits.
Original seed from Stately Farm in Cañon City, Colorado.
This selection was discovered by a guy named John Baer - in a field of 'Bonny Best' in 1914. So - an heirloom. You can spot a John Baer out of a basket of tomatoes as it's incredible color stands out. Before turning an absolutely dark, glossy red-red, it has an almost coppery hue to it - just beautiful.
Thankfully the flavor is good too. Balanced flavor with a hint of sweetness. Plenty of juice in a 4-8 oz tomato.
Vigorous plants bear lots of blemish-free, uniform fruits.
Original seed from Stately Farm in Cañon City, Colorado.
Kellogg's Breakfast
Kellogg's Breakfast - 85 days - WVA - Indeterminate
Heirloom
Very large orange beefsteaks will wow you with incredibly sweet and rich flavor. Flesh is meaty - makes for a great slicer or canner. Large, rambling plants, get ready for lots of tomatoes.
Heads up Mountain Folk, this is a long season tomato and will benefit from cover at altitude.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Heirloom
Very large orange beefsteaks will wow you with incredibly sweet and rich flavor. Flesh is meaty - makes for a great slicer or canner. Large, rambling plants, get ready for lots of tomatoes.
Heads up Mountain Folk, this is a long season tomato and will benefit from cover at altitude.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Koralik
Koralik - 57 days - Poland - Determinate
What a giver! You can pick Koralik out of a crowd of tomatoes as it will be covered in flowers and laden with slightly oval, delicious small cherry tomatoes. Borne in beautiful trusses on small, determinate plants. Great for containers - great out of hand.
This tomato performs beautifully here on the mountain, it's an overachiever to be sure. Bushy plant - no pruning necessary. Very flavorful.
Kotlas
Kotlas – 60 days – Russia - Determinate
Extra-early cold-tolerant tomato. Potato-leafed sparse foliage bears 2 oz. sweet and savory delicious fruits in record time.
Great flavor packs a punch. Prolific bush plants set so early and they are so good. The aftertaste is long and rich.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Extra-early cold-tolerant tomato. Potato-leafed sparse foliage bears 2 oz. sweet and savory delicious fruits in record time.
Great flavor packs a punch. Prolific bush plants set so early and they are so good. The aftertaste is long and rich.
Grown in the open at 8,120 ft.
Large Barred Boar
Large Barred Boar - 65-75 days - California - Indeterminate
A knock-out in the garden, on the vine, on the plate and in your mouth. Man this is a cool tomato. Absolutely unique and stunning, this black striped tomato sports metallic green stripes over a maroon red underbelly. Some call it 'pink/brown' with green stripes. It's unlike anything I've ever seen - especially in the sun. Delicious, intense flavor - meaty interior. Very prolific!
Another amazing creation from Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms.
Large Red Cherry
Large Red Cherry - 75 days - Indeterminate
Tall, vigorous vines need to be staked as they will be loaded with 1 oz., bright red cherry trusses. Delicious and juicy, this is a Ben Quisenberry creation. This tomato is highly adaptable and prolific.
This is a favorite for canning whole. Divine.
Start seeds 4-6 weeks before the last frost. Do not bury too deeply.
Tall, vigorous vines need to be staked as they will be loaded with 1 oz., bright red cherry trusses. Delicious and juicy, this is a Ben Quisenberry creation. This tomato is highly adaptable and prolific.
This is a favorite for canning whole. Divine.
Start seeds 4-6 weeks before the last frost. Do not bury too deeply.
Lenny and Gracie's Kentucky Heirloom
Lenny and Gracie's Kentucky Heirloom - 85 days - Kentucky - Indeterminate
This old Kentucky heirloom is sweet and succulent, with a bright yellow color tinged with a pink blush. Although a long-season tomato, it produced slicer sized beauties under cover at 7,200' - not bad for a longy. Nice beefsteaks - some lobed, some smooth - but all good. Named for Lenny and Gracie Adams, whose family grew it for generations. Juicy, small seed cavities and deep, sweet flavor.
Malachite Box
Malachite Box - (aka Malakhitovaya Shkatulka) - 75 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Oh goody goody this tomato makes me so happy. It's easier to grow than you'd ever believe and for a mid-season - it loaded nicely under single cover at 8,000'. Big, honkin' beefsteak clusters in the most amazing chartreuse color ever. And yes, they are succulent and juicy and wonderful. Delicious aftertaste and big enough to do what you want with them. This was another stand-out in last year's trials. I will grow this again and recommend you try it too!
Manitoba
Manitoba - 68 days - Canada - Determinate
Round, scarlet red little morsels are quick to set on a small determinate plant. Easy to grow in cold climates. Two bites of goodness or perfect on a salad, this is another great choice for the mountain garden. Juicy and meaty, salad-sized tomatoes. High production. Grown at 7.500' in the open.
Manyel
Manyel - 75 days - Native American - Indeterminate
Bright yellow heart shaped fruits that are both juicy and meaty. Sweet, tomato flavor with a citrus finish. Great aftertaste. Such a lovely tomato - delicious. Did great under single cover.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Market Miracle
Market Miracle – 65 days Siberia - Determinate
Balanced flavor of sweet and acid on compact plants. 8-12 oz. beautiful fruit. This is recommended to me by Wes McDorman, a veteran tomato grower. The fruits were amazing, big and cracky and heavy with juice.
This tomato makes a good canner as well as adorning a burger - it's juicy and mouthwatering and gives and gives. It is a heavy producer of beautiful large red tomatoes. It did great at 7,200' in the open.
Balanced flavor of sweet and acid on compact plants. 8-12 oz. beautiful fruit. This is recommended to me by Wes McDorman, a veteran tomato grower. The fruits were amazing, big and cracky and heavy with juice.
This tomato makes a good canner as well as adorning a burger - it's juicy and mouthwatering and gives and gives. It is a heavy producer of beautiful large red tomatoes. It did great at 7,200' in the open.
Marmande
Marmande - 67 days - French Heirloom - Indeterminate
Early, Big, Red, Delicious, Prolific. It's a keeper - joining the crowd. Full tomato flavor with a definite sweet edge. My notes say, "Perfect early beefies". 6-10 oz beauties come in clusters like these. Grows well in cooler climates.
Mexico Midget
Mexico Midget - 60-70 days - Mexico - Indeterminate
Firm, round red cherry tomatoes. Small and powerful - they pack a punch of tomato goodness. Large, sprawling plants with smaller leaves need staking. Quite early - prolific - bearing near-perfect small, round, red cherry tomatoes with a balanced flavor. Disease resistant. Delicious!
Given to Craig LaHoullier by Barney Laman, the brother of a trucker in Mexico who found it growing wild.
Original seed from Seed Savers Exchange to Stately Farms in Cañon City, Colorado to me.
Firm, round red cherry tomatoes. Small and powerful - they pack a punch of tomato goodness. Large, sprawling plants with smaller leaves need staking. Quite early - prolific - bearing near-perfect small, round, red cherry tomatoes with a balanced flavor. Disease resistant. Delicious!
Given to Craig LaHoullier by Barney Laman, the brother of a trucker in Mexico who found it growing wild.
Original seed from Seed Savers Exchange to Stately Farms in Cañon City, Colorado to me.
Mikarda Sweet
Mikarda Sweet – 67 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
A sweet tomato with full flavor. Almost pear shaped saladette-sized tomatoes on tall vines. 3-4 oz. pointy fruits. Strong plants bear early and get busy ripening these juicy morsels. The sweet finish makes your mouth water for more. Easy to grow.
A sweet tomato with full flavor. Almost pear shaped saladette-sized tomatoes on tall vines. 3-4 oz. pointy fruits. Strong plants bear early and get busy ripening these juicy morsels. The sweet finish makes your mouth water for more. Easy to grow.
Mortgage Lifter
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Mortgage Lifter - 95 days - West Virginia - Indeterminate - Heirloom
This is a long season heirloom tomato that so many people love, I decided to carry it. Mountain folk, this will not make it outside without cover or a greenhouse, but you can plant it in a large pot to bring inside in the fall.
The name comes from a guy in the 1920's who paid off his mortgage selling these plants. I'm always game for a good story but I also want good flavor. These tomatoes can easily reach 2 lbs!
A classic heirloom - large, red, mostly round with old fashioned tomato flavor. The one-slice burger tomato for sure. Disease Resistant.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Mortgage Lifter - 95 days - West Virginia - Indeterminate - Heirloom
This is a long season heirloom tomato that so many people love, I decided to carry it. Mountain folk, this will not make it outside without cover or a greenhouse, but you can plant it in a large pot to bring inside in the fall.
The name comes from a guy in the 1920's who paid off his mortgage selling these plants. I'm always game for a good story but I also want good flavor. These tomatoes can easily reach 2 lbs!
A classic heirloom - large, red, mostly round with old fashioned tomato flavor. The one-slice burger tomato for sure. Disease Resistant.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Moscow
Moscow – 62 days - Siberia – Determinate *******
Early, big, red, 3 ½”, 6-8 oz. fruits. Nice balance of sweet and acid flavors in a dense meat. Great for canning, one of Cord’s favorites.
This is one of our 'sure thing' tomatoes - a real super star to be sure. This 3-4' bush tomato loads hugies and then falls over. Glorious tomato. Grown in the open and the greenhouse.
10 years of adaption.
Early, big, red, 3 ½”, 6-8 oz. fruits. Nice balance of sweet and acid flavors in a dense meat. Great for canning, one of Cord’s favorites.
This is one of our 'sure thing' tomatoes - a real super star to be sure. This 3-4' bush tomato loads hugies and then falls over. Glorious tomato. Grown in the open and the greenhouse.
10 years of adaption.
Moskvich
Moskvich - 60 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Early red tomatoes roll off this plant in huge yields. These medium slicers are a great market choice - one of those Russian varieties able to really rock out at elevation. Multi-use tomato - great hamburger tomato and a wonderful canner. Great tomatoey flavor. Do what you want with these - you will get tomatoes.
4-10 oz.
Earlier than it says - bigger than it says - cold-tolerant.
Original seed from my friends at Brickyard Farm in Salida, Co.
Mother Russia
Mother Russia – 72 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Big, glorious rosy-red tomatoes with deep, intense flavor. Strong vines set clusters of dense but juicy 10-12 oz. fruits. Cold-hardy.
Another monster - full of flavor. Gorgeous, big, perfect fruits - they are the runway model of the Russian tomatoes. That indescribable flavor you want in a tomato. Ahhh...
Mother is also a heavy producer.
Big, glorious rosy-red tomatoes with deep, intense flavor. Strong vines set clusters of dense but juicy 10-12 oz. fruits. Cold-hardy.
Another monster - full of flavor. Gorgeous, big, perfect fruits - they are the runway model of the Russian tomatoes. That indescribable flavor you want in a tomato. Ahhh...
Mother is also a heavy producer.
Mt. Roma
Mt. Roma - 68 days – Determinate
Early Paste. Compact plants produce 2-3 oz., elongated fruits, even in cold areas. Bred from the older Heinz varieties. Disease resistant. Delicious out of hand, nice and smooth. They can get bigger than the picture but their flavor and earliness will make a believer out of you. Weeks before other pastes. Heavy loads. Great snack.
Another sure thing.
Early Paste. Compact plants produce 2-3 oz., elongated fruits, even in cold areas. Bred from the older Heinz varieties. Disease resistant. Delicious out of hand, nice and smooth. They can get bigger than the picture but their flavor and earliness will make a believer out of you. Weeks before other pastes. Heavy loads. Great snack.
Another sure thing.
Mountain Miracle
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Mountain Miracle - Early - Carbondale, Co - Indeterminate
This is a tomato project by Wild Mountain Seeds. This is another Grex, or Swarm. They planted many favorite heirlooms and then selected for earliness, flavor, drought tolerance, frost, endurance.
These tomatoes are big and pink but are not necessarily stable. Save your seeds and adapt them to your world, and see what they throw. My friend describes them as 'tangy twangy goodness' - love his descriptions.
Limited Quantity - Small Batch Farming - 25 seeds
Mountain Miracle - Early - Carbondale, Co - Indeterminate
This is a tomato project by Wild Mountain Seeds. This is another Grex, or Swarm. They planted many favorite heirlooms and then selected for earliness, flavor, drought tolerance, frost, endurance.
These tomatoes are big and pink but are not necessarily stable. Save your seeds and adapt them to your world, and see what they throw. My friend describes them as 'tangy twangy goodness' - love his descriptions.
Limited Quantity - Small Batch Farming - 25 seeds
Mountain Spirit
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Mountain Spirit - Early - Colorado - Indeterminate
This tomato is a project from Wild Mountain Seeds in Carbondale, Co. They are a 'bi-color hybrid swarm'. You can absolutely save your own seeds and continue adapting this to wherever you live. This is an awesome sandwich tomato, consistently sweet and smooth. You can easily get 2 pounders out of it. Grown under single cover at 8,000'.
Gorgeous sunset colors, try it, you'll like it!
Limited Quantity, Small Batch Farming - 25 seeds
Mountain Spirit - Early - Colorado - Indeterminate
This tomato is a project from Wild Mountain Seeds in Carbondale, Co. They are a 'bi-color hybrid swarm'. You can absolutely save your own seeds and continue adapting this to wherever you live. This is an awesome sandwich tomato, consistently sweet and smooth. You can easily get 2 pounders out of it. Grown under single cover at 8,000'.
Gorgeous sunset colors, try it, you'll like it!
Limited Quantity, Small Batch Farming - 25 seeds
Nebraska Wedding
Nebraska Wedding - 90 days - Determinate
Great Plains Heirloom. Bright orange 8-10 oz. globes on short plants. Seed traditionally gifted to brides on their wedding day to this day.
Interesting, fruity flavor. Juicy and meaty large tomatoes.
Great Plains Heirloom. Bright orange 8-10 oz. globes on short plants. Seed traditionally gifted to brides on their wedding day to this day.
Interesting, fruity flavor. Juicy and meaty large tomatoes.
Nepal
Nepal – 78 days – Nepal - Indeterminate
A monster, cold-tolerant beefsteak rich with flavor. 10-12 oz., bright red fruits. From the Himalayan Mountains. This is one of the varieties that grew in the open here at 8,000 ft. I thought if Nepal couldn't handle it - who could? This plant set a heavy load of large, glorious tomatoes - I was quite impressed.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
A monster, cold-tolerant beefsteak rich with flavor. 10-12 oz., bright red fruits. From the Himalayan Mountains. This is one of the varieties that grew in the open here at 8,000 ft. I thought if Nepal couldn't handle it - who could? This plant set a heavy load of large, glorious tomatoes - I was quite impressed.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Nevskiy
Nevskiy - 50-55 days - Russia - Dwarf - Determinate
I like this tomato! It grows stout, has beautiful rugose leaves in a deep green and sets nice red slicers. Super sturdy, compact plants can fit in amongst other things. I will grow this again - not only is it a great, tidy plant, it's extra early with good flavor! That's what I'm talking about!
This tomato is from St. Petersburg and is named for the Neva River. Bred in the 1960's, it was considered THE early tomato variety in Russia for many years. An old heirloom - time tested for short seasons.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
New Zealand Pear
New Zealand Pear - 80-85 days - New Zealand - Indeterminate
Beautiful dark pink paste tomatoes in the shape of a pear - dense meat great for sauce. Very delicious with beautiful color, this plant showed toughness in the greenhouse - it stood up to abuse and neglect and kept on delivering tomatoes!
I give it kudos for never giving up.
Ninety Wonder
Ninety Wonder – Early – Arizona - Indeterminate
Ping-pong ball sized red cherries tolerant to cold nights and hot days. This tomato can volunteer in warm places. Bursting with delicious full tomato flavor. Fruits get bigger than the picture.
Grown in the open 2 years at 8,120 ft.
Very prolific. Original seed from ThunderfooT. Desert adapted.
Ping-pong ball sized red cherries tolerant to cold nights and hot days. This tomato can volunteer in warm places. Bursting with delicious full tomato flavor. Fruits get bigger than the picture.
Grown in the open 2 years at 8,120 ft.
Very prolific. Original seed from ThunderfooT. Desert adapted.
Noire Charbonneuse
Noire Charbonneuse - 80 days - France
Name Translates - "Black Like Coal"
Smooth, perfect purple/black fruits are stunning to behold. Like satin, there is a sheen to the skin that is very beautiful. The flavor is smooooooth too, luscious and rich. It's got that, 'what-is-it-about-black-tomatoes' flavor going on - you will like it. Nice slicer size, but they can get big.
Crazy prolific in the Greenhouse - gives and gives and gives...
One of the rock stars of the season.
Northern Light
Northern Light–55 days-Montana - Determinate
Dependable early beefsteak with excellent flavor. Compact vines set heavily with 2-3” lg. fruits. Tolerant of climatic surprises. This is a very early tomato - setting heavy clusters of full-sized beautiful fruits.
Sweet start - full-bodied finish - absolutely delicious.
(This tomato is not the same as Northern Lights - a large orange/yellow indeterminate tomato with a pink blush on it's bottom.)
Dependable early beefsteak with excellent flavor. Compact vines set heavily with 2-3” lg. fruits. Tolerant of climatic surprises. This is a very early tomato - setting heavy clusters of full-sized beautiful fruits.
Sweet start - full-bodied finish - absolutely delicious.
(This tomato is not the same as Northern Lights - a large orange/yellow indeterminate tomato with a pink blush on it's bottom.)
Nova
Sorry it's blurry!
Nova - Early - origin unknown - Determinate
This is another really cool, almost dwarf tomato that loads up with early pastes!
I thought Bonsai was the only one. This plant gives a great tasting, roma-shaped, bright red tomato. Very easy to grow and Nova is really early - every plant in the flat had tomatoes on them - long before planting time! Very rare variety from The Sandhill Preservation Center.
This is another really cool, almost dwarf tomato that loads up with early pastes!
I thought Bonsai was the only one. This plant gives a great tasting, roma-shaped, bright red tomato. Very easy to grow and Nova is really early - every plant in the flat had tomatoes on them - long before planting time! Very rare variety from The Sandhill Preservation Center.
Odessa
Odessa - 58 days - Russia - Determinate
Odessa is a sure thing early wonder - compact growth habit adorned with
ping-pong sized delicious red tomatoes. 'Mouth-watering' was in my notes
when I taste tested it - along with, "I love this tomato - just how I like it."
So I guess that means robust tomatoey flavor - with a nice balance of acid
and sugar. 4-6 oz.
Crazy early too.
Odessa is a sure thing early wonder - compact growth habit adorned with
ping-pong sized delicious red tomatoes. 'Mouth-watering' was in my notes
when I taste tested it - along with, "I love this tomato - just how I like it."
So I guess that means robust tomatoey flavor - with a nice balance of acid
and sugar. 4-6 oz.
Crazy early too.
Olga's Biggest
Olga's Biggest - 75 days - Siberia - Indeterminate
Well, well, well. Welcome back Olga. She has been lost to me for some time. But I secured original seed and grew it out in three places and I am recently re-stocked. This is an interesting tomato, one of my favorites from Bill McDorman's Siberian collection. Olga is a heart shaped beauty with feather-like foliage. Deep, glorious flavor and juicy goodness to drip down your chin. I love this tomato. Fun to grow. Small seed cavities - rare seed.
Olga's Smallest
Olga’s Smallest Siberia/Colorado - Indeterminate
This is an offspring of Olga’s Biggest – very early, vigorous, disease resistant plants. Delicious 3 oz. red cherries. Not stable - you will get regular leaf and potato leaf and rarely, you will see a yellow.
They will be very early and resilient. This plant can get huge - but the yield will keep you coming back for more.
This is an offspring of Olga’s Biggest – very early, vigorous, disease resistant plants. Delicious 3 oz. red cherries. Not stable - you will get regular leaf and potato leaf and rarely, you will see a yellow.
They will be very early and resilient. This plant can get huge - but the yield will keep you coming back for more.
Olga's Yellow Chicken
Olga’s Yellow Chicken – 75 days – Siberia - Indeterminate
Bright yellow-orange, often egg shaped fruity flavored tomatoes on stocky vines. 5-6 oz. fruits on 3-4’ plants.
Delightful on the vine and delicious on the plate, Olga's Yellow Chicken is a great choice for the mountain garden. They can get bigger than the picture. Plants stay nice and tidy.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Bright yellow-orange, often egg shaped fruity flavored tomatoes on stocky vines. 5-6 oz. fruits on 3-4’ plants.
Delightful on the vine and delicious on the plate, Olga's Yellow Chicken is a great choice for the mountain garden. They can get bigger than the picture. Plants stay nice and tidy.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Orange Banana
Orange Banana - 85 days - Russia - Indeterminate
Fantastic flavor puts this orange Roma-shaped tomato in a class by itself. Deep flavor and so sweet! Great for sauce and for fresh eating. Makes an incredibly sweet dried tomato. Perfect 4-5 oz/ paste tomatoes with gorgeous deep orange color.
This is another long season tomato so Mountain types, consider growing under cover with this one.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Small Batch - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Fantastic flavor puts this orange Roma-shaped tomato in a class by itself. Deep flavor and so sweet! Great for sauce and for fresh eating. Makes an incredibly sweet dried tomato. Perfect 4-5 oz/ paste tomatoes with gorgeous deep orange color.
This is another long season tomato so Mountain types, consider growing under cover with this one.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Small Batch - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Oregon Spring
Oregon Spring – 60 days - Determinate
Miraculous loads of smooth, red, round 4” fruits on small plants. Delicious cool weather tomato. So easy to grow - another great choice for the open garden. Developed for cool weather, Oregon Spring has shown instant adaption to the Rockies.
Juicy, nice aftertaste.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Miraculous loads of smooth, red, round 4” fruits on small plants. Delicious cool weather tomato. So easy to grow - another great choice for the open garden. Developed for cool weather, Oregon Spring has shown instant adaption to the Rockies.
Juicy, nice aftertaste.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Orenburg Giant
Orenburg Giant – 75 days – Russia - Indeterminate
¾ - 3lb fruits with a wonderful, rich flavor. Crimson, round fruits on strong vines.
¾ - 3lb fruits with a wonderful, rich flavor. Crimson, round fruits on strong vines.
Peacevine Cherry
Peacevine Cherry – 70 days - Indeterminate
High in Vit. C and gamma-amino butyric acid, a body sedative that calms jitters. Delicious, prolific red cherries. I like to recommend this to the stressed and super-stressed. Eat Peacevine like little pills full of serenity. Small but powerful, the flavor is strong - on the tangy side. I really like this tomato.
High in Vit. C and gamma-amino butyric acid, a body sedative that calms jitters. Delicious, prolific red cherries. I like to recommend this to the stressed and super-stressed. Eat Peacevine like little pills full of serenity. Small but powerful, the flavor is strong - on the tangy side. I really like this tomato.
Peasant
Peasant - 67 days - Siberia - Determinate
Delicious! True tomato flavor – robust, red, full blown. Meaty – smallish juice and seeds – firm walls – nice shape. Better than expected – yummy!
Another great roma type that doubles for sauce and fresh eating. Really liked the flavor. Cool shape with long necks and a nippled end.
Delicious! True tomato flavor – robust, red, full blown. Meaty – smallish juice and seeds – firm walls – nice shape. Better than expected – yummy!
Another great roma type that doubles for sauce and fresh eating. Really liked the flavor. Cool shape with long necks and a nippled end.
Peron
Peron - 68 days - Argentina - Semi-determinate
This round, red tomato is renown for it's amazing adaptability. It is disease resistant, especially when it comes to fungal diseases, it has a crack-free, thin skin and is supposed to be easily peeled without hot water. It is drought tolerant and ripens to a deep, red color. This tomato which used to be called "Sprayless" and is sometimes called "Peron Sprayless", is said to give a normal crop without any disease control. This is an all-purpose tomato with good flavor.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Persimmon
Persimmon – 75 days – Russia - Indeterminate
Beautiful deep orange fruits look like real persimmons but rock out juicy tomato goodness. 5-7 oz. meaty, sweet, luscious.
I didn't want to stop eating this tomato and checked my fingers for a bit of cayenne - as there was a spicy flavor coming through. It was also gorgeous sliced. Beautiful market tomato.
Beautiful deep orange fruits look like real persimmons but rock out juicy tomato goodness. 5-7 oz. meaty, sweet, luscious.
I didn't want to stop eating this tomato and checked my fingers for a bit of cayenne - as there was a spicy flavor coming through. It was also gorgeous sliced. Beautiful market tomato.
Pink Brandywine
Pink Brandywine - 80 days - Amish - Indeterminate
Flavorful potato-leafed variety with multi-petaled flowers. Produces in cool climates – give afternoon shade in intense heat. 1 pounders are normal.
Hugies, and it's got that Brandywine thing going on, sweet, savory, juicy, pinky, meaty, yummy.
Seed source from ThunderfooT in Arizona.
Flavorful potato-leafed variety with multi-petaled flowers. Produces in cool climates – give afternoon shade in intense heat. 1 pounders are normal.
Hugies, and it's got that Brandywine thing going on, sweet, savory, juicy, pinky, meaty, yummy.
Seed source from ThunderfooT in Arizona.
Pink Ponderosa
Pink Ponderosa - 80-days - USA - Indeterminate
Heirloom
This is one of those big ol' slicers just perfect for sandwich's and hamburgers. It has a perfect balance of meatiness and juice, making it a great choice for canning too. It's just meaty enough for the slices to hold together and juicy enough for great flavor. Gorgeous dark pink color. Expect 1-2 lbs!
Big, pink beefsteaks on regular leaf, indeterminate plants. Heads up mountain growers, you might use cover for this one - this is a long-season tomato.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Heirloom
This is one of those big ol' slicers just perfect for sandwich's and hamburgers. It has a perfect balance of meatiness and juice, making it a great choice for canning too. It's just meaty enough for the slices to hold together and juicy enough for great flavor. Gorgeous dark pink color. Expect 1-2 lbs!
Big, pink beefsteaks on regular leaf, indeterminate plants. Heads up mountain growers, you might use cover for this one - this is a long-season tomato.
Start seeds 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Poma Amoris Minora Lutea
Poma Amoris Minora Lutea – 75 days - Indeterminate
Almost translucent, this ‘Little Yellow Love Apple’ is a delight to grow. Beautiful, vigorous and fresh tasting, this ancient variety comes from Padua, Italy, 1553.
One of my new favorites - so fun to grow and never stopped producing.
Almost too pretty to eat! Also did great in the greenhouse.
Almost translucent, this ‘Little Yellow Love Apple’ is a delight to grow. Beautiful, vigorous and fresh tasting, this ancient variety comes from Padua, Italy, 1553.
One of my new favorites - so fun to grow and never stopped producing.
Almost too pretty to eat! Also did great in the greenhouse.
Potomac
Potomac – early Paste - Determinate
This tomato comes from 1970’s seed and is new to me. The plant is very short and wildy prolific. Flavor is mild and fruits are thick-walled. From the plant breeder's collection - this paste tomato was very easy to grow.
This tomato comes from 1970’s seed and is new to me. The plant is very short and wildy prolific. Flavor is mild and fruits are thick-walled. From the plant breeder's collection - this paste tomato was very easy to grow.
Prairie Fire
Prairie Fire – 54 days – Montana - Determinate
Compact plants produce beautiful 3”, 3-4 oz round red fruits. Great flavor with a little kick. My helpers that day loved this tomato - and we all agreed there was a spicy or 'firey' thing going on - at the finish. Uniform, perfectly shaped fruits. Great market tomato - grown high or low.
This tomato originally comes from the late, great, Ken Fisher. His work sure is something - we mountain folk are forever indebted to him for creating and adapting such amazing varieties for short seasons.
Compact plants produce beautiful 3”, 3-4 oz round red fruits. Great flavor with a little kick. My helpers that day loved this tomato - and we all agreed there was a spicy or 'firey' thing going on - at the finish. Uniform, perfectly shaped fruits. Great market tomato - grown high or low.
This tomato originally comes from the late, great, Ken Fisher. His work sure is something - we mountain folk are forever indebted to him for creating and adapting such amazing varieties for short seasons.
Principe Borghese.
Principe Borghese – 78 days - Italy - Determinate
Italy’s favorite sun-drying tomato, they throw the plant over a fence to dry on the vine. I dried mine in the coat rack. Good snack.
The short plants set massive clusters of slightly oval, meaty 1 oz. tomatoes.
This tomato really shined last year - it's yummy, yummy, yummy.
Italy’s favorite sun-drying tomato, they throw the plant over a fence to dry on the vine. I dried mine in the coat rack. Good snack.
The short plants set massive clusters of slightly oval, meaty 1 oz. tomatoes.
This tomato really shined last year - it's yummy, yummy, yummy.
Puck
Puck - 55 days - England - Dwarf - Determinate
This little plant is really interesting. The tomatoes are supposed to be red but I found them to be more multi-colored than that - hard to describe - I'll let the picture do the talking. As with any dwarf - they are fun, fun, fun to grow. Throw in a little Shakespeare and you start to feel really smug with yourself when you grow it - a nice conversation piece. A tiny plant with rugosa foliage, it will look and grow great in a container. A Mid-Summer Night's Dream.
Very limited Quantity - 10 seeds.
This little plant is really interesting. The tomatoes are supposed to be red but I found them to be more multi-colored than that - hard to describe - I'll let the picture do the talking. As with any dwarf - they are fun, fun, fun to grow. Throw in a little Shakespeare and you start to feel really smug with yourself when you grow it - a nice conversation piece. A tiny plant with rugosa foliage, it will look and grow great in a container. A Mid-Summer Night's Dream.
Very limited Quantity - 10 seeds.
Punta Banda
Punta Banda - 67 days - Baja California - Semi-determinate
This is a groovy find. It's a hottie - it will not perform well in cold or wet conditions - this little guy likes it hot - perfect for down below in Colorado. Preferred for paste making as it is meaty with little juice. Great tomatoey flavor makes it an excellent cooking tomato. Compact plant produces over a long period - comes on early - goes out late.
Originally collected from the Punta Banda Peninsula in Baja California.
Purple Bumblebee
Purple Bumblebee Cherry - 60-70 days - California
These beautiful and delicious cherry tomatoes are from Artisan Seeds - breeders in California making magic mixing colors and flavors. I yelled when I tried one. Winey in the good way. Deep tomato flavor with that plummy, grapey, winey thing going on. Very delicious and sweet. Very happy with the short-season too. Did great at 8,000.
These will dress up your plate if they make it that far. Perfect for gobbling. Seems like kids would just love the beautiful color.
A keeper.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
These beautiful and delicious cherry tomatoes are from Artisan Seeds - breeders in California making magic mixing colors and flavors. I yelled when I tried one. Winey in the good way. Deep tomato flavor with that plummy, grapey, winey thing going on. Very delicious and sweet. Very happy with the short-season too. Did great at 8,000.
These will dress up your plate if they make it that far. Perfect for gobbling. Seems like kids would just love the beautiful color.
A keeper.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Purple Russian
Purple Russian - (aka Ukrainian Purple) - 70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
What a cool tomato - and the color of the sauce will blow your mind. Prolific, big and juicy and ready to eat fresh or rock and roll in the pot. I really like this tomato - this is what I wrote while eating it: "Smokey and slightly sweet. Strong walled lovely purple pastes."
I will grow this again. Elongated 4-9 oz. purple plum tomatoes on wild and wispy vines. Heavy loads of a multi-purpose tomato makes this a great market tomato.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Raspberry Lyanna
Raspberry Lyanna - mid-season - Russia Indeterminate
(perhaps Semi-Determinate)
Such a beauty! Named for it's incredible color, Raspberry Lyanna is a most beautiful pink tomato. Firm, smooth fruits come on in heavy loads, great for canning. Picture perfect, a market option for sure. Pretty and delicious - sweet and wonderful. Rich aftertaste.
(perhaps Semi-Determinate)
Such a beauty! Named for it's incredible color, Raspberry Lyanna is a most beautiful pink tomato. Firm, smooth fruits come on in heavy loads, great for canning. Picture perfect, a market option for sure. Pretty and delicious - sweet and wonderful. Rich aftertaste.
Red Cup
Red Cup - 85 days - Unknown Origin
What a cool tomato. A stuffing tomato, this big, fluted, red beauty is easily hollowed out to fill with chicken-salad goodness or quinoa and arugula or anything that floats your boat. Mmmmm. Inviting to fill, prolific to grow, this unusual tomato is a pretty fun time. Good tomato flavor for eating fresh too.
Red Fig
OUT OF STOCK!
Red Fig – 85 days – Philadelphia - Indeterminate
1805 heirloom giving heavy yields of 1 ½” pear-shaped fruits. Once used as a substitute for figs, it was dried for winter use. Skins are snappy, juicy and sweet. Great as a snack.
Red Fig – 85 days – Philadelphia - Indeterminate
1805 heirloom giving heavy yields of 1 ½” pear-shaped fruits. Once used as a substitute for figs, it was dried for winter use. Skins are snappy, juicy and sweet. Great as a snack.
Red Pear
OUT OF STOCK!!
Red Pear – 78 days - USA - Indeterminate - Heirloom
Reliable, bright-red 2” pear-shaped fruits are born in long clusters. Excellent for sauce, salsa, juicing and salads. Easy to grow.
They cluster like Red Fig - and are a favorite of kids.
Red Pear – 78 days - USA - Indeterminate - Heirloom
Reliable, bright-red 2” pear-shaped fruits are born in long clusters. Excellent for sauce, salsa, juicing and salads. Easy to grow.
They cluster like Red Fig - and are a favorite of kids.
Red Robin
Red Robin - 55 days - Super-Dwarf - Determinate
The original dwarf container plant. Red Robin grows about 12"-18", producing 1-1 1/2" bright red cherry tomatoes. Rugose leaves provide a thick skirt of dark green leaves - a beautiful plant overall. Tomatoes burst in your mouth with great flavor and a hint of sweetness. This plant can grow in as small a container as 8". A real giver.
The original dwarf container plant. Red Robin grows about 12"-18", producing 1-1 1/2" bright red cherry tomatoes. Rugose leaves provide a thick skirt of dark green leaves - a beautiful plant overall. Tomatoes burst in your mouth with great flavor and a hint of sweetness. This plant can grow in as small a container as 8". A real giver.
Red Siberian
Red Siberian - 72 days - Siberia - Indeterminate
Oh what a glorious tomato. This is another long, lost tomato. I hunted down original seed and grew it out along with Olga's Biggest. It is just as I remembered, big and luscious and so easy to grow you gain tomato confidence. Another favorite from Bill McDorman's tomato contributions from Siberia. Large beefsteaks with an incredible flavor that makes Russian and Siberian tomatoes so famous, I am so happy to have it back.
Limited Quantity 25 seeds
Riesentraube
Riesentraube – 76 days Germany - Indeterminate
“Giant bunch of grapes” – 1 oz. sweet red fruits. Grows in large clusters – prolific grape tomato. Zingy, juicy, bright, snacky.
“Giant bunch of grapes” – 1 oz. sweet red fruits. Grows in large clusters – prolific grape tomato. Zingy, juicy, bright, snacky.
Reisetomate
OUT OF STOCK!
Reisetomate – 70 days – Germany - Indeterminate
A traveler tomato as you can break pieces off without a knife. Like fused cherry tomatoes – the flavor is lemony.
Wild looking, alien like, a conversation piece to be sure, this traveler tomato is so fun to grow. The flavor is described as sour, but I think they are yummy. The skin is lemony but the flesh tastes like old fashioned tomato flavor. Sets a surprising load. Easy to break off the pieces and pop in your mouth.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Reisetomate – 70 days – Germany - Indeterminate
A traveler tomato as you can break pieces off without a knife. Like fused cherry tomatoes – the flavor is lemony.
Wild looking, alien like, a conversation piece to be sure, this traveler tomato is so fun to grow. The flavor is described as sour, but I think they are yummy. The skin is lemony but the flesh tastes like old fashioned tomato flavor. Sets a surprising load. Easy to break off the pieces and pop in your mouth.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Roma
Roma – 75 days – South America - Determinate
Rich paste type with meaty flesh and few seeds great for sauces and canning. Large, 4-6 oz. bright red fruits.
Rich paste type with meaty flesh and few seeds great for sauces and canning. Large, 4-6 oz. bright red fruits.
Rouge d'Irak
Rouge d' Irak - 85 days - Iraq - Indeterminate
Another save from Aziz Nael - trying to help preserve lost Iraqi seed diversity. Keeping these varieties going is a great connection we can have with other gardeners from around the world. The fact that half of Colorado is hot and high elevation makes this a good choice. This tomato should be able to take the heat. This is a beautiful fluted or lobed tomato - squatty, beefsteaky and red. It did well at 7,500' in the open but my guess is - it will do even better down below. (5,000' - the other half of Colorado - where it gets incredibly hot but it's still high elevation.)
Another save from Aziz Nael - trying to help preserve lost Iraqi seed diversity. Keeping these varieties going is a great connection we can have with other gardeners from around the world. The fact that half of Colorado is hot and high elevation makes this a good choice. This tomato should be able to take the heat. This is a beautiful fluted or lobed tomato - squatty, beefsteaky and red. It did well at 7,500' in the open but my guess is - it will do even better down below. (5,000' - the other half of Colorado - where it gets incredibly hot but it's still high elevation.)
San Marzano cluster
San Marzano – 90 days – Italy - Indeterminate
Holy Tomato Batman! This is an amazing tomato! It gives and gives and gives and gives.
Highly productive long, pepper shaped intense red paste tomatoes. 3.5” long, 1/5” across – makes the world’s finest sauce.
Bold tomato flavor followed with a sweet, incredibly delicious finish. It tastes like Italy and every great sauce you have ever eaten. Beyond expectations.
Holy Tomato Batman! This is an amazing tomato! It gives and gives and gives and gives.
Highly productive long, pepper shaped intense red paste tomatoes. 3.5” long, 1/5” across – makes the world’s finest sauce.
Bold tomato flavor followed with a sweet, incredibly delicious finish. It tastes like Italy and every great sauce you have ever eaten. Beyond expectations.
Santiam
Santiam - 55 - 60 days - Oregon - Determinate
Cold-tolerant round, red tomato bred by Dr. Jim Bagette of OSU. This ultra-early tomato came out along with Oregon Spring - another sure-thing early. It is bred for cooler climates and short seasons.
Short bushy plants grow easily and set early. I grew Santiam under a tree at 8,000' it's first year and it produced with no cover. Beautiful blemish free 3-4 oz. red fruits on 30" tall plants.
Released in 1984 and is Verticullum and Fusarium Wilt resistant.
Cold-tolerant round, red tomato bred by Dr. Jim Bagette of OSU. This ultra-early tomato came out along with Oregon Spring - another sure-thing early. It is bred for cooler climates and short seasons.
Short bushy plants grow easily and set early. I grew Santiam under a tree at 8,000' it's first year and it produced with no cover. Beautiful blemish free 3-4 oz. red fruits on 30" tall plants.
Released in 1984 and is Verticullum and Fusarium Wilt resistant.
Sart Roloise
NEW FOR 2025!!!
Sart Roloise - 75 days - Belgium - Indeterminate
I like a beautiful tomato but sometimes I am skeptical about the flavor. Holy Pretty Tomato - this tomato was absolutely delicious! Here's what I wrote on the taste test:
"Fruity, tangy, slightly sweet, complex, bold, tomatoey, and the aftertaste is making my mouth water right now – for a looooong time."
Here's the research I found:
Created by Roland Boulanger in 2012, Sart Eustache, Belgium. He crossed the large white beefsteak ‘White Wonder’ with an anthocyanin cherry tomato ‘Baby Blue’ and received a very impressive and very tasty variety.
One of the stars of the season - fruits can get much bigger! Outstanding.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Sart Roloise - 75 days - Belgium - Indeterminate
I like a beautiful tomato but sometimes I am skeptical about the flavor. Holy Pretty Tomato - this tomato was absolutely delicious! Here's what I wrote on the taste test:
"Fruity, tangy, slightly sweet, complex, bold, tomatoey, and the aftertaste is making my mouth water right now – for a looooong time."
Here's the research I found:
Created by Roland Boulanger in 2012, Sart Eustache, Belgium. He crossed the large white beefsteak ‘White Wonder’ with an anthocyanin cherry tomato ‘Baby Blue’ and received a very impressive and very tasty variety.
One of the stars of the season - fruits can get much bigger! Outstanding.
Start seeds indoors 4-8 weeks before the last frost.
Sasha's Altai
Sasha’s Altai – 59 days – Siberia - Indeterminate *******
Incredible earliness and great flavor makes this #1 for the mountain garden. Once you go Sasha – you’ll never go back! Penn’s favorite tomato.
The best tomato in the world. Read Sasha's Story at Seeds Trust .com
I dare you not to cry. Super star tomato for the mountains. Sasha does not thrive in the heat and appreciates afternoon shade in the high and dry Colorado Steppe. (AKA: "The Down Below")
The best part is this is a delicious, amazing tomato and the juice will run down your chin. Sasha is a small viner and sets the fruit very close to the stem and this feature helps Sasha endure the hail. #1 Sure thing. 11 years of adaption.
Incredible earliness and great flavor makes this #1 for the mountain garden. Once you go Sasha – you’ll never go back! Penn’s favorite tomato.
The best tomato in the world. Read Sasha's Story at Seeds Trust .com
I dare you not to cry. Super star tomato for the mountains. Sasha does not thrive in the heat and appreciates afternoon shade in the high and dry Colorado Steppe. (AKA: "The Down Below")
The best part is this is a delicious, amazing tomato and the juice will run down your chin. Sasha is a small viner and sets the fruit very close to the stem and this feature helps Sasha endure the hail. #1 Sure thing. 11 years of adaption.
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Schimeigg Stoo
Schimeigg Stoo - 75 days - Washington - Indeterminate
Schimeigg Stoo means "Striped Cavern" in Manx, Tom Wagner's maternal grandmother's language. Many years ago it was called T-1. Schimeigg Stoo is a hollow, 'pepper' tomato - excellent for stuffing. It is striped - red with golden stripes. It does not seem to have deep flavor but it is loved for it's stuffing ability. I love it because I love Tom Wagner's work and I love unusual tomatoes. Having a stuffing tomato so unusual and pretty will grace your plate and tempt your friends to try something different. Oooh - I want some chicken salad - right now. Can and will get bigger than the picture.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Shadow Boxing
Shadow Boxing (Dwarf) - 55 days - Washington - Dwarf Indeterminate!
Okay - this is really cool. This is Tom Wagner land where tomatoes are allowed to have sex and make babies. In fact, they are encouraged to. Tom is straight up about whether a variety is stable or not or whether you might see sports. First of all - I've never heard of a dwarf indeterminate before. This means it continues to produce tomatoes on a very manageable-sized plant. Determinates set fruit all at once, and usually dwarfs are determinate. All of Tom's tomatoes are known for their disease resistance - as well as incredible colors. The color here does not exactly match Tom's picture but the deeper color is fantastic so I'm not complaining. The flavor was very good - tomatoey with a 'blue' finish. So beautiful...
Siberian Pink Honey
Siberian Pink Honey - early - Russia - Indeterminate
Sounds like the name of a groovy rock and roll band. This tomato is a Rock Star! This is a big, glorious oxheart - yeah, an oxheart, with it's wispy foliage hanging over with huge heart-shaped beauties. I couldn't stop taking pictures of them. Expect 1-2 lbs - depending on growing conditions.
No better way to say it - here are my exact notes:
"Well Hello! Nice to meetcha! What a starlet – a superstar – a great beauty. Perfect pink/red hearts – oxhearts, big, hefty, juicy, lovely, irresistible. One of the stand-outs in this difficult climatic year. At first I thought “lightly sweet and refreshing" – code for weak flavor. But then the aftertaste came and kicked ass – smoothed out – went sweeter and finished wanting more. So a winner."
It's true - I wanted to smear this one all over my face.
Seed Source from a Russian/Italian friend.
Limited Quantity - rare seed - 25 seeds.
Silvery Fir Tree
Silvery Fir Tree – 58 days – Russia - Determinate *************
Carrot-like lacy leaves on distinctive, tidy 2’x 2’ plants. Surprising loads of slightly flattened 2-3 ½” red fruits with that delicious, Russian flavor.
We love this plant. Gorgeous foliage sets off the ridiculous loads of big, red tomatoes. Plants are so small they fit anywhere. Tomatoes get bigger than the picture. So early - it will amaze you.
A sure thing.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft. and the greenhouse.
Carrot-like lacy leaves on distinctive, tidy 2’x 2’ plants. Surprising loads of slightly flattened 2-3 ½” red fruits with that delicious, Russian flavor.
We love this plant. Gorgeous foliage sets off the ridiculous loads of big, red tomatoes. Plants are so small they fit anywhere. Tomatoes get bigger than the picture. So early - it will amaze you.
A sure thing.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft. and the greenhouse.
Skyreacher
Skyreacher - 79 days - Washington - Indeterminate
Oh lovely - deep brick red with orange stripes - (I know!), these beauties set
lots and lots of near perfect, blemish-free, crack resistance fruits. Sweet, excellent flavor from the great Tom Wagner's stunning tomato collection.
Easy as pie to grow and they took a real lickin' in the greenhouse last fall.
They suffered neglect and abuse and they just kept on coming. It took me a minute and once I stopped to really look at them, I was in love. So beautiful!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Oh lovely - deep brick red with orange stripes - (I know!), these beauties set
lots and lots of near perfect, blemish-free, crack resistance fruits. Sweet, excellent flavor from the great Tom Wagner's stunning tomato collection.
Easy as pie to grow and they took a real lickin' in the greenhouse last fall.
They suffered neglect and abuse and they just kept on coming. It took me a minute and once I stopped to really look at them, I was in love. So beautiful!
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Sleeping Lady
Sleeping Lady - 65-70 days - USA/Australia - Dwarf Indeterminate!
I love this thing - love it! One of my knock-out performers last year. Good grief it's yummy. Deep and balanced, with a 'spicy' beginning and a sweet finish. So good - you can't wait to try them. They are like little, fluted beefsteaks in shape and the color is mahogany/brown/chocolate... The plant is another dwarf indeterminate - a 3' plant that keeps bearing - wow. It used to be called 'Grumpy' and is part of the Dwarf Tomato Project and is a cross between Black From Tula and Budai Torpe. Super glad to welcome this tomato to the mountains.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Snow Fairy
Snow Fairy – early – Russia - Determinate - Dwarf
Super-early dwarf variety grows stocky and dark green, setting off the bright red 2-3 oz. fruits. Sweet, mild, container friendly. This is the Russian version of a patio tomato - early and somewhat cold-hardy.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Super-early dwarf variety grows stocky and dark green, setting off the bright red 2-3 oz. fruits. Sweet, mild, container friendly. This is the Russian version of a patio tomato - early and somewhat cold-hardy.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Spiridonovskie
Spiridonovskie - 50-55 days - Russia - Determinate - Dwarf - (Tree-type)
Ultra-Early Russian fastie gives a reliable yield of 1-3 oz. slightly fluted bright red fruits. Known for surviving frost conditions - this is a cold-tolerant, disease resistant variety. This compact plant grows 2' with dark green rugose leaves.
Great for the mountains.
I grew this under a tree at 8,000' in the Rockies and it grew just fine.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Ultra-Early Russian fastie gives a reliable yield of 1-3 oz. slightly fluted bright red fruits. Known for surviving frost conditions - this is a cold-tolerant, disease resistant variety. This compact plant grows 2' with dark green rugose leaves.
Great for the mountains.
I grew this under a tree at 8,000' in the Rockies and it grew just fine.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Striped German
Striped German - 80 days - West Virginia
Beautiful to behold. Slightly sweet, juicy and luscious. Golden yellow with a rosy blush – starting from the bottom up. Marbled interior when sliced. Stunning and huge. Oh yeah.
Stump of the World
Stump of the World – 80 days - USA - Indeterminate
Dark pink 1 lb. beefsteaks on potato-leafed vines. It's true - I had to try it for it's name - I'm a sucker for a good name. But as soon as I tasted it I recognized the flavor. This tomato is a cousin of Brandywine, the rich flavor is outstanding.
Tomatoes can get huge but on a determinate plant. This is the work of Ben Quisenberry - a great American tomato breeder.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Dark pink 1 lb. beefsteaks on potato-leafed vines. It's true - I had to try it for it's name - I'm a sucker for a good name. But as soon as I tasted it I recognized the flavor. This tomato is a cousin of Brandywine, the rich flavor is outstanding.
Tomatoes can get huge but on a determinate plant. This is the work of Ben Quisenberry - a great American tomato breeder.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Stupice
Stupice – 52 days – Czech. - Indeterminate
Extra-early saladette clusters are first in the race to ripen. 3-6 oz. fruits – has won many taste tests. Potato-leafed.
Stupice can take the heat and set in the cold, making it one of the most adaptable tomatoes around. Flavor is outstanding. I always look forward to my first Stupice.
Grown in the open. 7 years of adaption.
Extra-early saladette clusters are first in the race to ripen. 3-6 oz. fruits – has won many taste tests. Potato-leafed.
Stupice can take the heat and set in the cold, making it one of the most adaptable tomatoes around. Flavor is outstanding. I always look forward to my first Stupice.
Grown in the open. 7 years of adaption.
Sub-Arctic Plenty
Sub-Arctic Plenty – 62 days - Canada - Determinate
Cold-tolerant and early-ripening. Compact, prolific plants deliver clusters of tasty 2 oz. fruits. Fine flavor - good for anything. Another great variety developed for cold, short seasons.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Cold-tolerant and early-ripening. Compact, prolific plants deliver clusters of tasty 2 oz. fruits. Fine flavor - good for anything. Another great variety developed for cold, short seasons.
Grown in the open garden at 8,120 ft.
Sunset
Sunset – Early - Indeterminate
Seed from the 1960’s. Amazing early variety changes every color as it ripens. Absolutely beautiful and delicious too. From the plant breeder's collection, I have not found a tomato by this name and description. Scarlet, perfectly round fruits are the grand finale of a long ripening performance. Even the green stages change color - nuance by nuance. Fascinating to watch.
Here's what I wrote from the 2014 critique - while still chewing:
Sweet and delicious – truly good. Wonderful balanced aftertaste to boot – with sweet overtones. Tomatoey, very solid center – seed cavities around the edges – easy to slice. Delicious!
Seed from the 1960’s. Amazing early variety changes every color as it ripens. Absolutely beautiful and delicious too. From the plant breeder's collection, I have not found a tomato by this name and description. Scarlet, perfectly round fruits are the grand finale of a long ripening performance. Even the green stages change color - nuance by nuance. Fascinating to watch.
Here's what I wrote from the 2014 critique - while still chewing:
Sweet and delicious – truly good. Wonderful balanced aftertaste to boot – with sweet overtones. Tomatoey, very solid center – seed cavities around the edges – easy to slice. Delicious!
Super Beefsteak
Super Beefsteak –VFN – 80 days - Indeterminate
Old-fashioned flavor in a very large beefsteak. Improved.
Old-fashioned flavor in a very large beefsteak. Improved.
Super Marmande
Super Marmande - 70 days - France - Semi-Determinate
Heirloom
Bigger than Marmande, this beautiful tomato produces uniform 6-12 oz. beefsteaks. Excellent smooth balanced flavor. Makes a great market or canning variety. Scarlet red, lightly lobed fruits.
Disease Resistant
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Heirloom
Bigger than Marmande, this beautiful tomato produces uniform 6-12 oz. beefsteaks. Excellent smooth balanced flavor. Makes a great market or canning variety. Scarlet red, lightly lobed fruits.
Disease Resistant
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Sweet Orange II
Sweet Orange II - mid-season - USA
Oh man. This tomato is a powerhouse of fruity flavor. The color is absolutely gorgeous, then I smelled it before I ate it and the fruitiness hit me upside the head.
I loved it - this has a rep for competing with Sungold F1 for fruity flavor.
What a color for the cherry mix at the market. Beautiful, uniform fruits with firm, juicy flesh.
An advanced generation of the original Fruity Mix from Peter's Seed and Research.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Oh man. This tomato is a powerhouse of fruity flavor. The color is absolutely gorgeous, then I smelled it before I ate it and the fruitiness hit me upside the head.
I loved it - this has a rep for competing with Sungold F1 for fruity flavor.
What a color for the cherry mix at the market. Beautiful, uniform fruits with firm, juicy flesh.
An advanced generation of the original Fruity Mix from Peter's Seed and Research.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Taimyr
Taimyr - early - Russia - Dwarf - Determinate
Perfect 1-2 oz. firm red fruits are a delicious addition to the garden. Sweetness first with a strong tomatoey finish. Nice clusters grow on strong stems. Fruits are smooth and beautiful. These grew under a tree at 8,000' in the Rockies it's first year - no cover except the tree. Stocky plants - rugose leaves.
Gorgeous in the container!
From the Taymyr Peninsula, in the Far North of Russia - Siberia
Perfect 1-2 oz. firm red fruits are a delicious addition to the garden. Sweetness first with a strong tomatoey finish. Nice clusters grow on strong stems. Fruits are smooth and beautiful. These grew under a tree at 8,000' in the Rockies it's first year - no cover except the tree. Stocky plants - rugose leaves.
Gorgeous in the container!
From the Taymyr Peninsula, in the Far North of Russia - Siberia
Tangella
Tangella - 80 days - England - Indeterminate
Beautiful bright yellow-orange saladettes wake up your senses with color and flavor. Fruity flavored with a lingering sweetness. Easy to grow and versatile to eat.
Picture shows slightly over-ripe wrinkles. Still pretty.
Tatar of Mongolistan
Tatar of Mongolistan - 70 days - origin unknown - Indeterminate
Big, red, beautiful - and somewhat mysterious. Very good balanced flavor makes this productive variety a must try. Compact indeterminate plants grow about 5' tall.
Taxi
Taxi - 65-70 days - Determinate - USA
Early 4-6 oz., lemon-yellow, meaty tomatoes come on in prolific clusters. Meaty interior makes it perfect for slicing. Great flavor, low-acid, starts tangy, finishes sweet with a lovely aftertaste. Reliable early tomato.
Early 4-6 oz., lemon-yellow, meaty tomatoes come on in prolific clusters. Meaty interior makes it perfect for slicing. Great flavor, low-acid, starts tangy, finishes sweet with a lovely aftertaste. Reliable early tomato.
Ten Fingers of Naples
Ten Fingers of Naples - 70-75 days - Italy - Indeterminate
Let's go to Italy! This tomato hangs in many-fingered clusters of long, red plum tomatoes. The tomatoes are perfect for cooking as they are not juicy. Thick walls with little juice is the chef's dream for sauce. 2-3 oz. tomatoes load up nicely. Balanced sweetness shines through.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Tigerella
Tigerella - 65-70 days - England - Indeterminate
A lovely little gem, Tigerella has been well loved for many, many years. This is a 2-3 oz striped beauty full of flavor. There is some confusion out there about variety names and Mr. Stripey often gets confused with Tigerella. Tigerella is a small saladette tomato, not a hugie. The picture shows the process to a red, striped tomato. Give this old timer a try - it's certainly proved itself.
A lovely little gem, Tigerella has been well loved for many, many years. This is a 2-3 oz striped beauty full of flavor. There is some confusion out there about variety names and Mr. Stripey often gets confused with Tigerella. Tigerella is a small saladette tomato, not a hugie. The picture shows the process to a red, striped tomato. Give this old timer a try - it's certainly proved itself.
Tlacolula
Tlacolula - 80 days - Mexico - Indeterminate
What a vigorous, productive plant! It loved it in the heat - nothing could stop it! It grew to 12' in the greenhouse and never minded drought or heat. It is a beautiful thing - super-fluted and almost hollow, making it a great stuffing tomato. They can get quite big - bigger than the picture. Ruffled. Sweet flavor - exceptional.
Tommy Toe
Tommy Toe – 70 days – Australia - Indeterminate
Prolific, bright-red cherries load every branch. Delightful, round, delicious and disease resistant. Firm and perfect, the clusters are everywhere. Nice, balanced flavor. Sweet without the sour tang. Has a salty bite and wonderful aftertaste. Excellent market tomato - does not crack.
Prolific, bright-red cherries load every branch. Delightful, round, delicious and disease resistant. Firm and perfect, the clusters are everywhere. Nice, balanced flavor. Sweet without the sour tang. Has a salty bite and wonderful aftertaste. Excellent market tomato - does not crack.
Tunnel Stake
Trunnel Stake - mid-season - Washington
I cannot resist a Tom Wagner creation. Trunnel Stake is a nice little bi-colored plum shaped tomato sporting orange stripes over red. It is thick-walled - great for salsa or cooking. Add another beautiful bi-color to your collection.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Ukrainian Purple
Ukrainian Purple - (aka Purple Russian) - 70 days - Ukraine - Indeterminate
What a cool tomato - and the color of the sauce will blow your mind. Prolific, big and juicy and ready to eat fresh or rock and roll in the pot. I really like this tomato - this is what I wrote while eating it: "Smokey and slightly sweet. Strong walled lovely purple pastes."
I will grow this again. Elongated 4-9 oz. purple plum tomatoes on wild and wispy vines. Heavy loads of a multi-purpose tomato makes this a great market tomato.
Original seed from Stately Farms in Cañon City, Co to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
What a cool tomato - and the color of the sauce will blow your mind. Prolific, big and juicy and ready to eat fresh or rock and roll in the pot. I really like this tomato - this is what I wrote while eating it: "Smokey and slightly sweet. Strong walled lovely purple pastes."
I will grow this again. Elongated 4-9 oz. purple plum tomatoes on wild and wispy vines. Heavy loads of a multi-purpose tomato makes this a great market tomato.
Original seed from Stately Farms in Cañon City, Co to me.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Una Heart Stock
Una Heart Stock - 55 days - Canada
Perfect, balanced flavor – right off the bat. You can taste the sweet and acidic simultaneously. Excellent flavor and performance. Grape cherry tomato grew in the open at 8,000'. Vigorous plants set fruit early.
Original seed from my friend Jillian Bishop at urbantomato.ca in Canada.
Urbikany
Urbikany – 58 days – E. Europe - Determinate
Great market tomato, compact, uniform plants produce saladette beauties in red. This small plant can cover itself in tomatoes. Deep flavor. A sure thing. 6 years of adaption. A sure thing.
Grown in the open.
Great market tomato, compact, uniform plants produce saladette beauties in red. This small plant can cover itself in tomatoes. Deep flavor. A sure thing. 6 years of adaption. A sure thing.
Grown in the open.
Valencia
Valencia – 59 days – Maine - Indeterminate
8-20 oz. bright-orange, smooth, rich tasting tomatoes. They look like an orange on the vine. They grew to this size at 7,500' in the open. They grow slightly smaller at 8,000'. Heirloom.
Delicious full-bodied tomato with a long aftertaste. Gorgeous.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
8-20 oz. bright-orange, smooth, rich tasting tomatoes. They look like an orange on the vine. They grew to this size at 7,500' in the open. They grow slightly smaller at 8,000'. Heirloom.
Delicious full-bodied tomato with a long aftertaste. Gorgeous.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Velvet Red
Velvet Red – 75 days - Indeterminate
Angora leaves – grey-green with lovely white fuzz. Pure red, 1” globes make a beautiful presentation.
The fuzzy leaves reach far and wide, a sprawling habit covered with scarlet jewels, this is novel and dee-lish.
As with all Angora's - some of the plants will be green - cull them out or grow them anyway- they will all produce the same red cherry.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Angora leaves – grey-green with lovely white fuzz. Pure red, 1” globes make a beautiful presentation.
The fuzzy leaves reach far and wide, a sprawling habit covered with scarlet jewels, this is novel and dee-lish.
As with all Angora's - some of the plants will be green - cull them out or grow them anyway- they will all produce the same red cherry.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Ventura
Ventura – 65 days - Determinate
Small, fully loaded plants give a nice paste tomato. Original seed is from the 70’s. Sure like the growth habit.
From the plant breeder's collection, Ventura showed amazing vigor. These thick-walled beauties will make a thick sauce easily.
Small, fully loaded plants give a nice paste tomato. Original seed is from the 70’s. Sure like the growth habit.
From the plant breeder's collection, Ventura showed amazing vigor. These thick-walled beauties will make a thick sauce easily.
Vilms
Vilms - 70-days - Lithuania - Semi-Determinate
Such a beautiful little paste tomato. Very rare heirloom offered by Sandhill Preservation Center. Stunningly bright red fruits are perfect for cooking or for eating fresh. This grew very easily for me and made perfect fruits. Easy to eat - very good flavor.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Vintage Wine
Vintage Wine - 84 days - WA - Indeterminate
Stunning color with a delicious, sweet flavor. Pink with gold stripes, a tomato in pastel shades. So pretty!
8-10 oz., slightly flattened fruits will grace your plate. Potato leaf vining plants. Add this one to your bi-color collection.
Stunning color with a delicious, sweet flavor. Pink with gold stripes, a tomato in pastel shades. So pretty!
8-10 oz., slightly flattened fruits will grace your plate. Potato leaf vining plants. Add this one to your bi-color collection.
Violet Jasper
Violet Jasper (or Tzi Bi U)–China - Indeterminate
Oriental jewels ripen violet-purple with iridescent green streaks. 1-3 oz. fruit gives a huge yield. Great for market. Sister to Topaz.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
Oriental jewels ripen violet-purple with iridescent green streaks. 1-3 oz. fruit gives a huge yield. Great for market. Sister to Topaz.
Very Limited Quantity - 10 seeds
V.R. Moscow
V.R. Moscow - 70-80 days - Utah - Determinate
Bred for the mountains, and for disease resistance! The V.R. is for Verticillium Wilt Resistance. This canning tomato got my attention in 2014 when it loaded up with almost perfect looking fruits in lovely clusters. The plant is polite and easy to grow - even for a mid-long season tomato. This is a very useful tomato, I really liked it's performance here at 8,000' Sweet, bright, juicy. Pointy butted - almost like a fat oxheart. Delicious.
Bred for the mountains, and for disease resistance! The V.R. is for Verticillium Wilt Resistance. This canning tomato got my attention in 2014 when it loaded up with almost perfect looking fruits in lovely clusters. The plant is polite and easy to grow - even for a mid-long season tomato. This is a very useful tomato, I really liked it's performance here at 8,000' Sweet, bright, juicy. Pointy butted - almost like a fat oxheart. Delicious.
Wapsipinicon Peach
Wapsipinicon Peach - 78 days - USA - Indeterminate
Robust, fruity flavor is unexpected and wonderful in such a delicate looking morsel. Light yellow with a blush of pink, this tomato is covered in a light fuzz that melts in your mouth. 1 1/2" - 2" wide fruits. Prolific clusters of deliciousness. A must try!
Robust, fruity flavor is unexpected and wonderful in such a delicate looking morsel. Light yellow with a blush of pink, this tomato is covered in a light fuzz that melts in your mouth. 1 1/2" - 2" wide fruits. Prolific clusters of deliciousness. A must try!
Wayahead Super
Wayahead Super – 63 days - Determinate
1921 introduction from Jung’s. Loyal fans enjoy earliness, abundant fruit and fine tomato flavor. Med.- sized. Juicy and tangy.
1921 introduction from Jung’s. Loyal fans enjoy earliness, abundant fruit and fine tomato flavor. Med.- sized. Juicy and tangy.
Wendy
Wendy – 65 days – New Zealand - Semi-determinate.
She is sweet as a plum, fast and productive. Round, lemon yellow, 2” beauties. Wendy has very small seed cavities and thick walls yet as juicy as can be. Absolutely reliable. I wouldn't know what to do without a summer of Wendy's - she is another sure thing.
She is sweet as a plum, fast and productive. Round, lemon yellow, 2” beauties. Wendy has very small seed cavities and thick walls yet as juicy as can be. Absolutely reliable. I wouldn't know what to do without a summer of Wendy's - she is another sure thing.
Whippersnapper
Whippersnapper – 59 days - Determinate
Extra-early tasty pinkish-red, slightly oval 1” cherry tomatoes. Generous clusters of goodness. Pop them in your mouth for a happy explosion.
Beautiful on the vine. Small plants are loaded with hanging pink-red trusses.
Extra-early tasty pinkish-red, slightly oval 1” cherry tomatoes. Generous clusters of goodness. Pop them in your mouth for a happy explosion.
Beautiful on the vine. Small plants are loaded with hanging pink-red trusses.
White Cherry
White Cherry – 80 days - Indeterminate
Pale, almost translucent, lemon yellow 1” cherries are borne on strong vines. Pleasant, sweet/tart, easy to eat.
Amazingly strong plants - they jump right out of the soil - vigorous!
Pale, almost translucent, lemon yellow 1” cherries are borne on strong vines. Pleasant, sweet/tart, easy to eat.
Amazingly strong plants - they jump right out of the soil - vigorous!
White Quees
White Queen – 70 days - Indeterminate
A favorite white among collectors. Introduced in 1882, 4-8 oz. creamy white beauties are fragrant and sweet.
This tomato is so easy to grow it will make you feel like a professional. Large clusters of these beefsteak beauties give you a happy feeling inside. Tender but firm, sliceable and mild.
A favorite white among collectors. Introduced in 1882, 4-8 oz. creamy white beauties are fragrant and sweet.
This tomato is so easy to grow it will make you feel like a professional. Large clusters of these beefsteak beauties give you a happy feeling inside. Tender but firm, sliceable and mild.
Yellow Bell
Yellow Bell - 60 days - Tennessee - Indeterminate
Heavy-yielding plants give 5-12 fruits per cluster. Great, sweet, rich flavor perfect for sauces and salsas. Introduced by SSE in 1986, I love the shape and the earliness. Oh yeah, and easy to grow.
Yellow Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine – 90 days - Indeterminate
Incredible flavor from huge golden-yellow beefsteaks. Ribbed, flattened and gorgeous, they are borne on potato-leafed vines.
All the brandywines deliver and this one is no exception, I am always amazed at their growth habit - vigorous! Potato leafed.
Incredible flavor from huge golden-yellow beefsteaks. Ribbed, flattened and gorgeous, they are borne on potato-leafed vines.
All the brandywines deliver and this one is no exception, I am always amazed at their growth habit - vigorous! Potato leafed.
Yellow Pear
Yellow Pear - 70 days - Indeterminate
Beloved by young and old. Vigorous vines, prolific yield, mild flavor, easy to pop in your mouth. So pretty in the salad and makes a great snack.
Beloved by young and old. Vigorous vines, prolific yield, mild flavor, easy to pop in your mouth. So pretty in the salad and makes a great snack.
Yellow Perfection
Yellow Perfection - 70 days - England - Determinate
Well this is an interesting find. Beautifully round, deep yellow, ripens to orange, 3-5 oz. slicers. Blemish free, perfect fruit. My notes say good, creamy flavor with a smooth aftertaste. Thick walls, firm fruits, juicy. Good start, better finish.
Thanks to Scot Bowers for giving it to me to trial.
LQ - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Well this is an interesting find. Beautifully round, deep yellow, ripens to orange, 3-5 oz. slicers. Blemish free, perfect fruit. My notes say good, creamy flavor with a smooth aftertaste. Thick walls, firm fruits, juicy. Good start, better finish.
Thanks to Scot Bowers for giving it to me to trial.
LQ - Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Yellow Plum (1)
Yellow Plum (1) - 65-75 days - Heirloom - Indeterminate
This old variety has a wonderful flavor I really like. Fruity, with a little zing, meaty, with solid flavor. You could do a lot with this 1 oz. little beauty. Half them for salads or cook them up for sauce.
I would call this a grape (cherry) tomato but it's meatiness makes it an obvious choice for cooking so it's really more of a small plum tomato.
(1) - I find two 'Yellow Plum" tomato varieties. I am just going to list them as 1 and 2. They are quite different.
This old variety has a wonderful flavor I really like. Fruity, with a little zing, meaty, with solid flavor. You could do a lot with this 1 oz. little beauty. Half them for salads or cook them up for sauce.
I would call this a grape (cherry) tomato but it's meatiness makes it an obvious choice for cooking so it's really more of a small plum tomato.
(1) - I find two 'Yellow Plum" tomato varieties. I am just going to list them as 1 and 2. They are quite different.
Yellow Reisentraube
Yellow Riesentraube – 75 days - Indeterminate
Germany “Giant bunch of yellow grapes!” Productive plants give pointed, grape-sized fruits. Sweet and delicious.
Germany “Giant bunch of yellow grapes!” Productive plants give pointed, grape-sized fruits. Sweet and delicious.
Zapotec Pleated
Zapotec Pleated - 80 - 85 days - Mexico
Large, heavily pleased red tomatoes are so fun to grow. As they get bigger, they can get cavernous which makes them good for stuffing. Few seeds, small seed cavities. This tomato can take a little heat and still produce. Expect large yields of this interesting tomato. Well balanced flavor, sweet and tart. Another one to wow your friends with.
Mountain folk, grow this long season tomato in your greenhouses or under cover.
Large, heavily pleased red tomatoes are so fun to grow. As they get bigger, they can get cavernous which makes them good for stuffing. Few seeds, small seed cavities. This tomato can take a little heat and still produce. Expect large yields of this interesting tomato. Well balanced flavor, sweet and tart. Another one to wow your friends with.
Mountain folk, grow this long season tomato in your greenhouses or under cover.
Zagadka
Zagadka - 55 days - Moldova - Determinate
Salad, canner, multi-purpose tomato gives and gives. Keeps well after picking and bears heavy loads.
2-4 oz. red, slightly elongated or pointy and blemish-free fruits. Great for Farmer's Market. Wonderful balanced flavor - this is a very happy discovery - it seems to flush with tomatoes multiple times.
Prolific! Plant stays bushy - only 3' tall.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Salad, canner, multi-purpose tomato gives and gives. Keeps well after picking and bears heavy loads.
2-4 oz. red, slightly elongated or pointy and blemish-free fruits. Great for Farmer's Market. Wonderful balanced flavor - this is a very happy discovery - it seems to flush with tomatoes multiple times.
Prolific! Plant stays bushy - only 3' tall.
Limited Quantity - 25 seeds
Zaryanka Sunrise
Zaryanka Sunrise - 68 days - Siberia - Semi-determinate
Beautiful, orange-red 6-8 oz. meaty round tomatoes. Tidy, compact plants, great for markets – almost beefsteak.
Beautiful, orange-red 6-8 oz. meaty round tomatoes. Tidy, compact plants, great for markets – almost beefsteak.
More Mountain Seeds - Food and Flowers
Ripening Orach seed.
Mountain gardens take on a life of their own - they have to - it's wild on a good day. Here are some of the many great 'free food' varieties, food that will ramble through your garden, show up in the gravel driveway and be the first thing to pop up against the house in spring. I love these things and count on them to always be there - I hope you enjoy them too.
All of these varieties are grown at 8,120 ft. above sea level.
All of these varieties are grown at 8,120 ft. above sea level.
"Free Food"
Food you let ramble through the garden - these things will grow in the driveway!
Mountain Spinach - Orach:
Orach Mix
Green Orach
Arugula
Mammoth Dill
Mizuna
Beetberry - Chenopodium capitatum
Chinese Chives
Red and Golden Orach babies
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Green Orach seedling
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Mizuna
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1st year Beetberry
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